The Republican Civil War – revisted
It just doesn’t get any better than this. Only hours removed from Democrats, Liberals and Progressives of all stripes prophesying doom for the Republican party due to it’s infighting and ‘civil war’, after hearing little known democratic strategist after little known democratic strategist harping about “What happened to your big tent Republicans?” We now have the following:
Obama Supporters MoveOn.Org Promises To Punish Dems Voting Against Health Plan (Fox News / AP)
And it starts out with the words “A civil war is threatening to erupt within the Democratic Party as liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org looks to punish moderate Democrats opposed to the sweeping health care overhaul proposed by party leaders.
MoveOn has reportedly raised more than $3.5 million in contributions to fund primary challenges against “any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option,” according to an e-mail sent to group members on Thursday.
The e-mail warned that any Democratic House member who joins Republicans to filibuster the health care reform measure will “face an enormous backlash from the grassroots.”
Hmmm, that sounds an awfully lot like what the Democrats were just accusing the Republicans of, didn’t Robert Gibbs say the other day that ‘I think many in the Republican Party hung out a sign, as you heard people at the White House say this weekend, that moderates need not apply” So what now Robert, are you guys hanging out the same sign for the Blue Dogs?
It is rather funny that so many people are scared to death of 2010 and the labels that might come back to bite them in the posterior. If you read my article on Alan Grayson, you can see how he no longer calls himself a Democrat, but now skipping right past the ‘liberal’ label he is a Progressive. Rather than calling himself “A Democrat with Guts” he is remarketing himself as “A Congressman with Guts” maybe he is hoping that people will forget he is a Democrat, who knows.
But after watching the races this week, how many Democrats in both the House and Senate will be willing to ‘walk the plank’ for Obama, after seeing their President after successive campaign appearances being unable to move an incumbants poll numbers one measly point? Doesn’t bode well does it? It sure seems like the voters are already tired of being told Bush is to blame for everything but the weather (and no doubt some Progressives blame him for that) how much more tired to you think they will be a year from now? Remember also, unemployement was under 10% on Tuesday.