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Confirmed: Anti-war moonbats control Democratic party
I know – it’s not exactly news, but the NYT has a piece today about ‘daily conference calls’ Democrat staff leaders in the House and Senate have with anti-war moonbat groups like MoveOn.org. and how those groups have helped significantly shape the Democrats’ anti-war policies:
WASHINGTON, May 4 — Every morning, representatives from a cluster of antiwar groups gather for a conference call with Democratic leadership staff members in the House and the Senate.
Shortly after, in a cramped meeting room here, they convene for a call with organizers across the country. They hash out plans for rallies. They sketch out talking points for “rapid response” news conferences. They discuss polls they have conducted in several dozen crucial Congressional districts and states across the country.
Over the last four months, the Iraq deliberations in Congress have lurched from a purely symbolic resolution rebuking the president’s strategy to timetables for the withdrawal of American troops. Behind the scenes, an elaborate political operation, organized by a coalition of antiwar groups and fine-tuned to wrestle members of Congress into place one by one, has helped nudge the debate forward.
But there are tensions in the relationship between the groups, which banded together earlier this year under the umbrella of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, and the Democratic leadership. The fissures could be magnified in coming weeks as the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, and the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, struggle to cobble together a strategy after President Bush’s veto of the $124 billion Iraq spending bill that tied the money to a timetable for withdrawal.
On Thursday, leaders of the liberal group MoveOn.org, including Tom Matzzie, the group’s Washington director who also serves as the campaign manager for the coalition, sent a harshly worded warning to the Democratic leadership.
“In the past few days, we have seen what appear to be trial balloons signaling a significant weakening of the Democratic position” the letter read. “On this, we want to be perfectly clear: if Democrats appear to capitulate to Bush — passing a bill without measures to end the war — the unity Democrats have enjoyed and Democratic leadership has so expertly built, will immediately disappear.”
The letter went on to say that if Democrats passed a bill “without a timeline and with all five months of funding” they would essentially be endorsing a “war without end.” MoveOn, it said, “will move to a position of opposition.”
These are the people who now hold all the cards in the Democratic party:
Caption: Antiwar organizations at a planning retreat Thursday in Washington, in a composite image. The discussion mirrored that of planning meetings for traditional political campaigns. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)
Potential new party motto: What Would McGovern Do?
Top this off with the news that 35% of Democrats believe Bush “knew” about the 9-11 attacks before they happened, and 26% ‘aren’t sure’, and you have the makings of a party where the fringe is no longer the fringe, but very much the mainstream.
Joining this group are a few former “Bush Republicans” who now support either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton because of their ‘disillusionment’ with Bush. Um, newsflash, people: Bush isn’t running for re-election. He can’t. There are ten Republicans out there all trying to distinguish themselves from Bush and amazingly they can do it without – gasp – switching parties and support.
What’s the real reason these so-called “Bush Republicans” are turning to the other party? It has very little to do with their ‘frustrations’ with the President and a whole lot to do with wanting to be on board the Democratic party ‘power express’, which is running full steam ahead, just about as fast as the Little Engine That Couldn’t. You can have ‘em, Democrats.
Update: Vote in the MoveOn.org poll on impeaching the President. Jules Crittenden has the details.
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Quite the Faustian Bargain the Dems made with the moonbats eh? They desperately want power so badly they aligned themselves with these nutcases, and now are finding out that their path to future power, which requires appealing to the middle, blocked by the threats of the moonbats if they deviate from the far left line.
Can’t say I feel sorry for them but I do feel sorry for the country, this will not be helpful for the rest of us, no matter how much shadenfreude it provides.
“Do what we say or else”. What a wonderful group of people the democratic party has allied itself with. Oh well, what’s that old saying about when you lay down with dogs?????
You found out that the dog s*** on you NC??? Seems to me that these guys have sold their souls to the devil, as Sev states, and now the devil wants his due.
This situation with these RINOs is one of the many matters that upsets me with GW. He panders to the middle and then pandered to the middle some more. And more often than not they screwed him when it came time for some party discipline. You would have thought that he would have learned, but sadly he didn’t. I am “disillusioned” with this President too, but I am not stupid enough to make a deal with the devil. Good Luck RINOs, cuz sooner or later, conservatives are gonna kick your bootie. – Lorica
A political party needs a mechanism to distance itself from nut-cases to survive. It takes courage, and common sense, neither of which I’ve seen demonstrated by Democrats lately. The majority of voters in my state are registered Independents!
moonbat.org is funding the party so they have no choice. They have more money coming in than ever.
I would say they have been ‘bought’ by a special disinterest group. Heh.
But since Fred is coming to town I am much less worried. A new sheriff will clean out them varmints.
My idea for a Thompson bumper sticker: Right Said Fred!
What a waste’o carbon.
I would love to hear the whinning these guys exhibited on this morning’s conference call. With France’s help maybe we can get Syria under control. Then make life in Lebanon much less frightful. Poor liberal extremists must be gnawing on their fingers scared of the good things that conservatives should be able to get done in the world. – Lorica
The people in the picture aren’t dressed very business like. Obviously they are excited about having thier picture taken, you’d think they’d dress for the occassion.
Yeah, and Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America and those other deceptively-named right wing organizations DON’T have their hands on the testicles of the Republican party. Pot, meet kettle.
And your proof that they hold daily conference calls with Republicans is where, exactly? They have a lot smaller amount of influence than the nutroots do over the Dems. I know, I’ve never seen the groups you mention at the secret Illuminati VRWC meetings I go to.
Oh c’mon, Sev! Didn’t you get the memo that we were just a couple days away from a theoratic state, thanks to the ‘rad Christian right’?
I must have missed that memo ST! Damn cheap, Chinese made Illuminati VWRC/Templar decoder rings anyway…grumble…
Yeah, please. The way the religous right controls the Republicans are so numerous, that it’s disgusting. Take the hate crimes legslation, for instance. Just two days after Concerned Women for America complains about Bush’s silence about it, he threatens a veto. Same with stem cell research. I could go on, but I don’t want to. Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt…
Wow, what insight! That must be why the NYT has pictures of the right wing groups meeting with Republicans! What? They don’t? Must be that horrible right wing slant of the NYT coming thru again!