OK. Marching orders, in code of course: Eat your Cheerios. I repeat, eat your Cheerios. Don't eat Fruitloops. Repeat: don't eat Fruitloops.
Look, I was supposed to give you these orders a few weeks ago. You were supposed to be "in", having survived this many years, and well, I was chewed out by the higher-ups for being negligent.
"Democratic congressmen can do that, for example, by making a credible collective pledge that if you vote Democrat enough you will never pay another medical bill as long as you live. You really think people wouldn't stop voting Republican then?"
The leftists of other countries are browbeating the US left for being 'behind' on socialized medicine.
From the recently published hit piece on Ed Klein authored by Sydney Schanberg-who's usually an astute, relatively honest investigative journalist-to the conspiratorial, reflexively anti-GOP ravings of resident nutter James Ridgeway, to the ad hominem attacks tossed off by their culturally psychophrenic staff writer, Richard Goldstein, the Voice has already erected a phalanx against any perfectly legitimate inquiries made by individuals or groups who may doubt that Madame Hillary is sincere in her purported convictions.
Like every other leftist house media organ-without exception-that is in the process of shilling for her 2008 candidacy, they believe-incorrectly or not-that she is the salvation of the contemporary Democratic Party.
Defeating her-from their persepctive-would be the political equivalent of introducing genuine market-based reforms into the Social Security system, or achieving any other enormous, conservative-oriented policy victory.
It would be a death blow for the Democrats, which is why every Dem. Party apparatchik, every external, nominally independent "think" tank, such as the laughably named Center For American Progress, and in the case of the Village Voice, every platform for socialist thought that can exert even a marginal impact upon the American polity, will resort to anything; whether it be dissimulation, slander, libel, evasion, or any of a host of other purely diversionary tactics, in order to ensure that she is nominated and that she wins.
Period, end of sentence, end of discussion.