Posted on 08/02/2007 7:59:47 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
he Vast Left-Wing Establishment Kossacks, with help from the Republican party, flex their muscles in Chicago.
By Byron York
Today more than a thousand Kossacks — adherents of the left-wing website DailyKos — are gathering for their annual convention in Chicago. It’s the second YearlyKos, in circumstances far different from the first, held in June 2006 in Las Vegas. Back then, it was possible to say — I said it lots of times — that the DailyKos had backed dozens of Democratic candidates in various races around the country, and nearly every one of them had lost. The left-wing netroots had lots of energy, some organization, and an endless supply of anger. But it didn’t have many winners.
Now, however, as the Kossacks go to Chicago, Democrats are in control of the House and the Senate, and some owe their victories to netroots support. And just look at the people who are coming to visit YearlyKos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and many others. That’s an impressive lineup from anyone’s point of view — the kind of turnout one would normally see for a major Democratic constituency, like a big-labor organization or the NAACP. YearlyKos has attracted virtually everyone who is anyone in the Democratic establishment.
Emphasis on “establishment.” The turnout in Chicago shows that the Kossacks and colleagues from other activist websites have taken their place as the newest wing of the establishment in Democratic-party politics. They’re not exactly the new bosses; it’s not as if the unions and interest groups have disappeared, but it is true that the netroots now rank alongside them. A candidate who wants to win can no longer ignore the netroots, even if he or she would like to.
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Perhaps I’ve been living under a rock, but I had been only very peripherally aware of DailyKos until recently. I had seen references to it in print before, and always read it as “Daily Chaos” until I heard a talk radio person pronounce it as “Daily Kose (like ‘dose’).”
After viewing the website, I think my initial, instinctive pronunciation is more accurate.
Hum, the pulled the thread that had comments...
Like I said in the other thread where I paraphrased Forrest Gump:
“Sometimes I guess there’s just not enough Lysol”
Seems as if this convention is going to coincide with the arrival of the Reverend Al in Chicago. Convenient.
Vast Left Wing Establishment—Vlewe or perhaps Phalooey!
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke
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