If we are lucky they will completely implode in July of 2006. The RAT civil war is going to get real ugly. The militants they have developed over the years will become their worst nightmare.
Unity? Unity?! They're supposed to be the party of diversity, not unity.
A divider, not a uniter ... hehe ...
All I got from their Centrist Message and future of the Party is "Bush Sucks"
this is all smoke and mirrors to establish her as the "centrist" democrat...
nonsense
Idiots. They should be rallying around her, knowing that she's no centrist and, once in power, will reveal her true colors.
It'll be alright the next time she treats us to one of those Godawful monotone screeches
That's like saying MoveOn.org has been influential in elections for the RATS. rolfol! Only the left wing KOOKS like Barbara Boxer, John Conyers, etc. would be caught on Daily Kos.
Wow .. can't ya just feel the love in the Dem Party?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Last paragraph of the article:Meanwhile, Jesse L. Jackson reopened his decades-old battle with the DLC by accusing the group of fronting for corporate interests while ignoring labor and civil rights leaders. "The DLC embraces CAFTA and sells admission to its conference to corporate lobbyists," he said in a speech to the AFL-CIO convention in Chicago.You go Je$$e! LOL
This is a political calculation on her part. She believes it will cement her as moderate, and a little backlash from the Hard left will not be irreversible in '08 because they'll do what they did in '04. Suck it up and vote against Reps for power.
That stated the Libs ARE in midst of a civil war. That is real. It is not at ALL clear they will vote for someone pretending to be a "moderate". The Democrats do NOT like Senator Clinton. The despise almost as much as do those on the right. Their outrage is not a front to advance her with middle America.
It's going to be interesting to watch the Dems try to juggle each side. The Hard Left owns the party, but because of it, they are on verge of political extinction. The Republicans have their own battles with the "mavericks", but we can still get elected even in the midst of that power struggle. The Dems' opportunities shrink each day.
This is all for show. When they have the opportunity to vote for her, they will all come home.
It certainly screams of a typical Clinton machination. They'll come around, bet on it. Either they'll shut up because the whole thing was phony from the start or they will be reminded Who is In Charge when the time comes for her to reach for the nomination. Either way they won't rock the boat.
Dissing the far left moonbats is a pretty shrewd political move. Kinda scary really. Hill WILL be running in '08.
What's Hillary going to do? Thumb her nose at the group that catapulted her husband to the White House?? Of COURSE she's going to suck up to the "moderates". That's the strategy that's worked before and will work again. She knows that. She's not stupid.
She's got to keep her message from sounding like Howard Dean - saying one day how the party needs to appeal to Christians then the next day bashing them as evil and hateful, then the next day saying how the party needs pro-lifers then the next day saying one shouldn't be on the Supreme Court...
Hillary is tacking in both directions too much as it is. If she wants her candidacy to be taken seriously, she needs to know that you can't be two-faced in the Lexis/Nexis era.
What do you mean angers left?
The left is perpetually angry no matter what; if it's not George Bush, it's Hillary Clinton, and anybody else who doesn't fan their fury and hatred. But is that a true political movement -- or just the self-association of the dysfunctional in this country now, the most visible of course, being columnists in the mainstream media.
Are we supposed to find them entertaining and informative? More and more they seem to be living remnants of life in the 20th century -- while most well-functioning people have transitioned into the 21st century. The main cause of their anger seems to be that the world is not returning to the 1960s so they can show us their collection of bell bottom pants and love beads they've saved for such a revival -- and saying, "I told you so."
There is no movement of the Left -- merely the delusions of the people time left behind.