Reply #39: Here you go (with links). [View All]

[ieoeja]

Dear MrBenchwarmer,

As I said, I assume you are only pretending to be ignorant of the voluminous public DLC attacks on their fellow Democrats. But just in case you really have spent 2005 with your head stuck ... (snicker) in the sand, here is some reading for your perusal.


"The Democratic Leadership Council Applauded Peter Beinart's Call (see http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/4/13/16489/4501) To Take Back The Party. 'Beinart's cri de coeur drew applause from the Democratic Leadership Council'". (source: http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/NRSC_press.pdf)

Note: the above source is from The National Republican Senatorial Committee. It features several quotes from DLCers attacking other Democrats. Nice job DLC.


Terry McAuliffe: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/6/15/142409.shtml

Sen. Joseph Biden, "He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats." (source: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june05/dean_6-22.html)

DLC CEO Al From: "You've Got To Reject Michael Moore And The MoveOn Crowd." "Rank-And-File Democrats `Are More Like Us Than MoveOn,' Which From Called A Group Of `Elites, People Who Sit In Their Basements All The Time And Play On Their Computers.'" (source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/4/13/16489/4501)

"(A)fter Dean won the endorsement of the 1.5 million-member public employees union AFSCME, the DLC denounced the union as 'fringe activists.'" (source: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050321/berman)

"'We need to be the party of Harry Truman and John Kennedy, not Michael Moore,' the DLC wrote on the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, of all places. 'What leftist elites smugly imagine is a sophisticated view of their country's flaws strikes much of America as a false and malicious cartoon,' the DLC's Will Marshall wrote in Blueprint, the group's magazine, in a rant worthy of The Weekly Standard. 'Democrats should have no truck with the rancid anti-Americanism of the conspiracy-mongering left.' The DLC continued this vitriol into March." (source: ibid)


Eagerly anticipating your next wild lurch.
Sincerely,
ieoeja