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| 2005-07-29 |
| A look at what the left is facing... Truly funny, and the opportunities for conservatives are staggering. EFL Just look at the reaction to Sen. Clintonâs speech from one of the most accomplished strategists of the VLWC, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos website. âThe poor, poor DLC forced to âreturn fire?ââ Moulitsas wrote this week. âPlease. The DLC has always been at the forefront of intra-party mud-slinging. Theyâre just finally being called on it, and suddenly itâs time for peace?â 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 â Berkeley, Calif. â is a bit, uh, way out there on the left. It seems Wittmann, writing in his own blog, disparaged those living in âthe daily kosy (misspelling intended) confines of Berserkely.â The Berserkelyites, Wittmann suggested, are obsessed with ideological battles and puritan purges, while âhere in Columbus constructive committed crusaders for progressivism are discussing ways to win back the hearts of the heartland.â In the world of the VLWC, themâs fightinâ words. And Moulitsas is in a fightinâ mood. Sen. Clinton âplans on working with the DLC to come up with some common party message yadda yadda yadda,â Moulitsas sniffed. Well, she can forget about that, Moulitsas continued. The DLC has âsmearedâ not only progressives but an entire city â that would be Berkeley â and shouldnât expect cooperation from anyone. âNotice how he slams everyone in Berkeley?â Moulitsas said of Wittmann. âNo good vital-center-seeking Democrats there! Theyâre all âberzerk,â 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!â âItâs truly disappointing that this is the crap Hillary has signed on to,â Moulitsas concluded. âMore of the failed corporatist bullshit that has cost our party so dearly in the last decade and a half.â By the âlast decade and a half,â Moulitsas apparently meant the period in which the DLC helped jettison the Democratic Partyâs soft-on-crime, soft-on-defense, soft-on-everything image, allowing Bill Clinton to win the White House. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #19 Didn't the unibomber come from Berzerkely? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-07-29 20:55 |
| #18 Please to stop f*ckin' with my mind, good sir. Let me pour some gasoline on that fire: people from San Francisco think that the Berkeley croud is out to lunch. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2005-07-29 18:32 |
| #17 )2 Kos may be many things: nasty, intellectually dishonest, etc. but dull he is not- at least not to everyone. The number of his readers greatly exceeds the readers of this site, unfortunately. ( Thass cuz us conservative don need no readin' |
| Posted by: Almost Anonymous2520 2005-07-29 16:19 |
| #16 Any serious Californian considers it as the home of dangerous nutjobs. Please to stop f*ckin' with my mind, good sir. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-07-29 15:17 |
| #15 Of course, all these will go into the Memory Hole in the Fall of 2008, which will show a united Democratic party behind the Moderate, even a little Conservative, Hillary Clinton. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-07-29 14:39 |
| #14 Berkley is a mental shithole. Any serious Californian considers it as the home of dangerous nutjobs. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-07-29 14:35 |
| #13 Hey, the donks can fight each other all they want, but they'd better not nuke Berzerkeley - that'd get 'em one heck of a whopping fine... |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-07-29 11:50 |
| #12 I, always, thought the proper name was: The People's Democratic Republic of Berkeley. When did it change? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-07-29 11:31 |
| #11 Can we get some more nekkid hippie grandmas with armpit hair? That would show a more serious side of the Dhimocrats. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-07-29 10:19 |
| #10 A split coming up? Three parties? The 'Pubs, Scoop Jackson centrist Dems (with the Hildebeast in command, of course) and the Michael Morons®? An opportunity, indeed! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-07-29 10:09 |
| #9 The DLC has âsmearedâ not only progressives but an entire city â that would be Berkeley â and.. Excellent! And for good measure, smear 'em some more! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-07-29 10:08 |
| #8 Louder, with more puppets and flag burning, please. That will convince the rubes to vote for you. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2005-07-29 10:04 |
| #7 I think their message isn't getting out. (/snicker) |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-07-29 09:42 |
| #6 Looks like the Dems are in a pickle. They need to answer one simple question, "Do we keep losing elections because we come across to the voters as hateful and deranged, or do we keep losing elections because we aren't acting hateful and deranged enough?" They need to get the answer right, or they're probably headed for history's septic tank; and so far, they appear not to have a clue. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-07-29 09:24 |
| #5 I'd offer them my services as friendly fire claims adjuster but prior engagements are calling and I don't have much experience working with the petty tragedy claims of nasty political clowns. |
| Posted by: MunkatKat 2005-07-29 09:21 |
| #4 Billions of flies like sh*t. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-29 09:14 |
| #3 Quantity is no substitute for quality, mhw. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-07-29 08:56 |
| #2 Kos may be many things: nasty, intellectually dishonest, etc. but dull he is not- at least not to everyone. The number of his readers greatly exceeds the readers of this site, unfortunately. |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-07-29 08:46 |
| #1 The DailyKos brings a whole new meaning to the term 'dull and tedious'. Its only significance is that it is the best the American Left has to offer. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-07-29 08:20 |