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November 16, 2006
Amusing the slant of the right wing media
For the last couple of days, the right wing media has talked incessantly about the "bitter" divisions between Democrats over the Hoyer vs Murtha fight. You would think that there was some sort of massive blood letting going on. Basically faced with two bad choices (DLC K-Street puppet verses Ethical Compromised Conservative) the Democrats chose the lesser evil and called it a day. But it's much harder to find out information about how things are going on the other side of the isle. I mean if you were to believe the right wing media the Republicans are back to their perfect Borg-like unity of mind now. The reality, people's ranking on Committees is bring threatened to bring people into the party line. The racist Redstater folks are complaining about the fact that their more radical choices are getting squeezed out by the more extremist elements of the party. Folks the battle in the Democratic party is about sending messages about behavior. Steny spent a great deal of time stabbing Pelosi in the back in the name of his DLC Blue Dogs who would rather see the Congress run by the Republicans rather than Democrats. Pelosi sent him a message, hey I don't have to put up with your crap, so straighten up and fly right and put America first. What remains to be seen is if Steny got the message. While the Democrats lack all the rigid and ruthless party discipline of the Republican party, they make up for it by working together for the common goal of representing America. You just won't find that kind of focus in the Republican party ever. The DLC Blue Dogs don't like that kind of behavior, but hopefully we can get it to grow on them after a little while. If they can't get on board with putting the American people first, we'll just have to do a little house cleaning next election cycle.
Read more over at Taegan Goodards Political Wire.
Posted by Jamison at November 16, 2006 1:11 PM
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