Sorry about not getting back to answer this, having serious problems with my cable provider or modem or something. It is intermittent, and driving me crazy.
Bloggers who just make stuff up and post it don't last very long. I may not like a lot about what Markos posts, but I do trust him to be honest. Bloggers get all kinds of tips if they are trusted.
From what I gather progressive Democrats often talk behind the scenes when they are worried about what the leadership is doing. There has been a lot of discussion all over about this, and it is not a public stance apparently. I am adding some more links, some about a training that was held where it appears things were said.
I certainly do hope for the sake of the heart and soul of our party that IF he is doing this, pushing them on this....that it won't work. He for sure has been pushing them to move to the right, so I don't find this especially hard to believe in this climate right now.
There must be something healing in it, something sensible or we will fail millions of people. That would not only make it a losing strategy, it would just be very very wrong.
Here is some more stuff I have found. Rahm is a fighter, I agree. However the events surrounding the 2006 election win have soured me forever about him and Carville. If you read them all, you will find they do have sources, often far better than the media which is considered so honest.
Open Left on immigration and Rahmhttp://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/11/which-imbeciles-are-listening-to-rahm.html"Many of the Democratic candidates who went to the Chicago training the DCCC
has, unconvincingly tried to claim had nothing to do with them, have derided
Rahm Emanuel's awful advice that they throw Hispanic voters under the bus
and "move to the right" on immigration. But it wasn't only Emanuel's handful
of pet aasskissers who have decided to doom their candidacies with this
idiotic stand. Apparently, even as most Democratic candidates refuse to move
to the right to please Emanuel, John McCain and Emanuel are on the same
page."
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/11/will-bush-veto-anti-immigrant-bill-rahm.html"Emanuel has demanded that Democratic candidates for 2008 "move to the
right" on immigration. He pulled the same stunt in 2006 when he forced many
Democratic candidates to move to the right on Iraq. Many of his puppets--
though, alas, not all-- lost because they listened to his horrible advice
about toning down the anti-war rhetoric. So while anti-war candidates like
Joe Sestak, Carol Shea-Porter, Patrick Murphy, Jerry McNerney, Bruce Braley,
Mike Arcuri, and John Hall beat Republican incumbents in Republican
districts, timid Democrats who bought Emauel's tone it down line, went down
to defeat. (That there are no congressmembers named Lois Murphy, Tammy
Duckworth, Ken Lucas, Francine Busby or Diane Farrell today is a direct
result of candidates who paid attention to advice from an ex-ballerina who
never fought against a Republican in his life-- only against progressive,
grassroots Democrats.)"
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/10/training-democratic-candidates-to-win.html"This past weekend there was a meeting in Chicago that was put together by
AFSCME, the New House PAC, Christine Pelosi, and the DCCC. Nancy Pelosi and
Chris Van Hollen were there and Rahm Emanuel video-phoned in. The meeting
was billed as an "internal training" for Democratic candidates and although
I've talked off the record with several attendees, other than Christine
Pelosi, I found the principals and organizers to be very squirrely about the
whole shebang. Very hush, hush.
Just try to get a list of who attended-- let alone who invited them! The
DCCC, of course, aren't responding and the AFSCME folks say they'll "get
back" to me. New House PAC has an unlisted phone number and no e-mail
address available online but I still managed to track down an officer. He
was cold, secretive and... he'll "get back" to me too. When I asked him who
the candidates who were invited were and how they got picked, the
temperature on the phone dropped to 20 below zero, kind of like what
happened when I asked the same question of the various AFSCME people I spoke
with."
"And, predictably, the lowpoint of the weekend was provided by Emanuel who--
in much the same way he told Democrats last year to play down the anti-war
message, causing several who listened to him to lose their races-- demanded
candidates inoculate themselves against expected GOP attacks by moving to
the right on immigration."
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More about the training boot camp from Jane Hamsher at FDL...
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/26/the-wisdom-of-rahm-emanuel-continues/