She's not the only Leftist speaking up, either. Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch has been excoriating the McAuliffe/Pelosi wing of the party, as has former governor Jerry Brown and Senator Zell Miller. Tony Blair has also dropped several non-subtle hints their way.
Not that the "new" Democrats in charge of this progressive car crash are listening, though!
They have no new ideas, for one thing.
For another thing, the California recall had to be the poorest example of Democratic campaigning since the Wellstone funerally last year.
At first, Davis and the media pretended to ignore the signature gatherers for the recall qualification. Then they ridiculed the recall effort ("they've all failed").
Then they fought the certification. Later, they applied pressure to keep realistic candidates off of the ballot in some lame attempt to shore up support for their lowest-rated governor in their entire history. Then they tried to get the courts to stop the whole election. Then they lied about the polls (Bustamante was never ahead, the race was never "tightening" or "too close to close"). Then they even started flinging wild-eyed hyperbole such as the "pro-Hitler" nonsense in the LA Times.
Quick, tell me one policy change or enhancement that either Davis or Bustamante said that they'd make if the voters decided to keep a Democrat in office. Oh, you mean they never offered such a proposal?? How odd that no one had a positive reason to vote for them?!
...And that's emblamatic/symptomatic of the ENTIRE Democratic Party. They have no new ideas. What's left of their Party survives only through inertia and the deliberate shilling of the news media (tell me again what major news media dared to publish even the **accusation** that Gray Davis physically abused female staffers --- sound of crickets).
I mean, don't look now but voters in Seattle just trounced the latte tax. Voters in Tennessee just trounced the state income tax. Voters in Alabama just trounced the largest tax increase in their history, and voters in California have just selected the man who is going to repeal the car tax there.
And nationally, voters have re-affirmed their support for income tax cuts, estate tax cuts, dividend tax cuts, and other such revenue reductions by voting to re-take the Senate for Republicans in 2002.
Republicans now control the govenorships in California, New York, Texas, and Florida (i.e. the 4 most populous states in the union). Clearly the people have spoken.
Republicans control the House, the Senate, the Presidency, most state legislaures, and most state governoships.
And it is the Republican Party that is responsible for building our ABM defenses in Alaska and California to protect our great nation from at least one form of nuclear attack. Republicans are leading the charge for private school vouchers, drilling in the ANWR, building new power plants and transmission lines, faith based charities, and privatizing numerous (over 800,000 on the auction block so far) federal jobs.
We're also about to ban Partial Birth Abortions as well as place Conservative judges onto the federal bench.