Posted on 11/07/2009 4:24:40 PM PST by EagleUSA
A civil war is threatening to erupt within the Democratic Party as liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org looks to punish moderate Democrats opposed to the sweeping health care overhaul proposed by party leaders.
MoveOn has reportedly raised more than $3.5 million in contributions to fund primary challenges against "any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option," according to an e-mail sent to group members on Thursday.
The e-mail warned that any Democratic House member who joins Republicans to filibuster the health care reform measure will "face an enormous backlash from the grassroots."
The group also highlights a letter from Democracy for America, the nation's largest progressive political action founded by former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, which urges Senate Democrats to strip committee chairmanship from "any Democrat who filibusters health care."
MoveOn.org, which has 5 million members, has become increasingly vocal in its threats against conservative and moderate Democrats who remain opposed to the health care bills laid out by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Several Democrats, including Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama, have expressed resistance to Pelosi's $1.055 trillion measure in recent days -- underscoring the intra-party rift over President Obama's top domestic priority.
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This could be very good for us. If MoveOn is devoted to promoting far-left kooks to run against the so-called moderates in 2010, then it’ll be that much easier to prove to the voting public that Dems do not have the country’s best interests at heart.
I can’t wait until this adminstration comes crashing down in shame and takes the media and the rats with it. It’s just a matter of time. They are overreaching and it’s just a matter of time until the deep seeded corruption surfaces.
So the left and the right threaten to fund opponents in primaries if the grassroots desires are voted for or against their wishes. The difference though, just like in August, is that there will then be a blueprint for the right to attack all the way to November 2010 while the left will be constantly on the defensive and claiming, as each outrageous provision irresposnibly rushed through without public review comes to light, "We didn't know that was in there."
It sounds more and more like Soros is in charge, not Obama.
It sounds more and more like Soros is in charge, not Obama.
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Without a doubt. The POST-AMERICA, one-world whackos who are now blaming America for “CO2 destruction” of the world want to take over America and MAKE IT PAY the third world the “injustice” that our CO2 production has done to them.
It is total, liberal insanity which is outright criminal and it must be stopped.
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