Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Lanny Davis gets a clue
My brief and unhappy experience with the hate and vitriol of bloggers on the liberal side of the aisle comes from the last several months I spent campaigning for a longtime friend, Joe Lieberman.
Lanny Davis, a liberal lawyer who defended Bill Clinton against the VRWC*, wakes up and smells the coffee. He couldn't believe that liberals -- of all people -- could hate with that much intensity. Now he does.
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*Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, natch.
2 Comments:
By 
Gordon Smith, at
Tue Aug 08, 09:47:00 AM:
LINK: "this campaign could have been a lesson to the establishment media that the progressive netroots are just a subset of the progressive movement, just as the progressive blogosphere is a subset of the progressive netroots. The progressive blogosphere is only about one-third of the progressive netroots, and the progressive netroots are only about one-third of the progressive movement (and the progressive movement has grown to about half the size of the Democratic Party).They could have learned about all of this, and they could have learned that the Internet side of the operation basically just functions as another department in the campaign, just like field, communications and political are departments within campaigns. They could have learned this, and learned how this movement is just itching to become a supplement to the Democratic Party and progressive politics as a whole, rather than against it. They could have learned this, but they would rather blame the downfall of the Democratic Party entirely upon a small handful of national bloggers who gather for drinks at Sullivan's. They could have learned this, but they did not."
By Dawnfire82, at
Tue Aug 08, 01:33:00 PM:
"The way to oppose a President whose party controls both houses of Congress is to never give an inch."
That is over-generalized. And if it were true why did the Republicans do so well in 2004?
Find other times in history when both houses of Congress have been controlled by a single party and the opposition broke the monopoly by never giving an inch... (I'm not sure such an example even exists) then examine the specific issues on which they did not yield, and the opposition's record on said issues. Chances are you'll find your reasons.
Being obstinate obstructionist assholes *cough*2004*cough* does not a victorious party make. Being RIGHT (or being perceived to be right, anyway) does; or at least, less wrong than the other.
