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Hillary Says Cease Fire, dammit!
A look at what the left is facing...
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Just look at the reaction to Sen. Clinton’s speech from one of the most accomplished strategists of the VLWC, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos website.

“The poor, poor DLC forced to ‘return fire?’” Moulitsas wrote this week. “Please. The DLC has always been at the forefront of intra-party mud-slinging. They’re just finally being called on it, and suddenly it’s time for peace?”

No way, said Moulitsas. In addition to opposing centrist Democrats on a wide range of issues, Moulitsas and his Daily Kossacks are incensed that one prominent DLC type, Marshall Wittmann, had the temerity to suggest that the Daily Kos home base — Berkeley, Calif. — is a bit, uh, way out there on the left.

It seems Wittmann, writing in his own blog, disparaged those living in “the daily kosy (misspelling intended) confines of Berserkely.” The Berserkelyites, Wittmann suggested, are obsessed with ideological battles and puritan purges, while “here in Columbus constructive committed crusaders for progressivism are discussing ways to win back the hearts of the heartland.”

In the world of the VLWC, them’s fightin’ words. And Moulitsas is in a fightin’ mood.

Sen. Clinton “plans on working with the DLC to come up with some common party message yadda yadda yadda,” Moulitsas sniffed.

Well, she can forget about that, Moulitsas continued. The DLC has “smeared” not only progressives but an entire city — that would be Berkeley — and shouldn’t expect cooperation from anyone.

“Notice how he slams everyone in Berkeley?” Moulitsas said of Wittmann. “No good vital-center-seeking Democrats there! They’re all ‘berzerk,’ ha ha! I bet he called up his old friends at the Christian Coalition and his current friends at PNAC [the neoconservative Project for a New American Century] to share that gem. Cease-fire, DLC style!”

“It’s truly disappointing that this is the crap Hillary has signed on to,” Moulitsas concluded. “More of the failed corporatist bullshit that has cost our party so dearly in the last decade and a half.”

By the “last decade and a half,” Moulitsas apparently meant the period in which the DLC helped jettison the Democratic Party’s soft-on-crime, soft-on-defense, soft-on-everything image, allowing Bill Clinton to win the White House.

Posted by: badanov 2005-07-29
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