Morning Recap
Jul 27th, 2005 at 5:39 am by Susie
WashPo: Yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah.
Hillary calls for party unity but aligns herself with the DLC to do so.
Bloggers, naturally, dissent. Because after all, the DLC is the organization of corporate interests.
The DLC blog (Marshall Wittman) then proceeds to get nasty, backhanding the liberal activist party wing. (Because they’re so cool, they still get to drink the special GOP Kool-Aid.)
Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson tried to deflect the criticism. “Her point was simply to say that the goals and issues that divide us are less consequential than are the ones we share in common, and that unity is needed in the face of our shared challenge,” Wolfson said.
John D. Podesta, who was White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, said he interpreted Clinton’s remarks as critical of those on both sides — centrists as much as liberals — who would devote more energy to internal party battles than to confronting the right . But he said Clinton may have underestimated the bad feelings within the party. “I think she was trying to push the DLC back a little bit, but she walked into a crossfire maybe she should have realized was out there,” he said.
Meanwhile, Jesse L. Jackson reopened his decades-old battle with the DLC by accusing the group of fronting for corporate interests while ignoring labor and civil rights leaders. “The DLC embraces CAFTA and sells admission to its conference to corporate lobbyists,” he said in a speech to the AFL-CIO convention in Chicago.
Another circular firing squad by the Democrats. One wonders why the Republicans even need to steal elections…
yay jj. hillary’s right yet again. huffington, sirota, and kos are being wanky-ass jerks. yeah, lefty bloggers matter. but the majority of americans are not lefty bloggers. to win elections, we have to care what other people think. we can attempt to persuade them if we think they need it, but the lefty blogosphere is acting like it thinks the most progressive 10% of our country should dictate the rules to everyone.
that’s a bit off-putting to people who really do love our country and democracy.
Jami’s right, too. Nothing wrong with actually thinking thru’ positions we’ve held so long they’ve become rigid dinosaurs. Times and technniques have changed. People change and their opinions evolve…