Arianna: Election not a mandate for Dems to run to middle, but to elect Murtha majority leader

[flpoljunkie]

Arianna will be on Larry King Live tonight bringing this message. In this link, she lists all the candidates who were not afraid to speak out about getting out of Iraq--many with no help from the DCCC. She also notes Al From claimed Tuesday as "a victory for the vital center of American politics over the extremes." If I am not mistaken, this is the very same phrase--"victory for the vital center" that Hillary Clinton used last night in her victory speech.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-morning-after-update_b_33647.html

Arianna Huffington

11.08.2006

Don't let the DLC and DCCC spin-meisters fool you. This election was not a mandate for the Democratic Party to run to the middle. It was a mandate for the Democratic Party to do everything in its power to get us out of Iraq -- rapidly and responsibly.

And that's why the next thing Democrats need to do is make sure that Jack Murtha becomes the new Majority Leader of the House. He led the charge to make Iraq the central issue of this campaign, and led the charge to keep pressing the issue when other Democratic leaders wanted to tone down the rhetoric or move economic issues to the forefront.

Jack Murtha's leadership sparked last night's victory and has given Democrats control of Congress for the first time in a dozen years. Now they have to complete the end-the-Iraq-debacle mission the voters have given them. And Murtha's the leader who can take them the rest of the way.

[madfloridian]

1. That's the same Arianna who bashed Dean last night ....

said the party won in spite of him.

I like Murtha, but he'd better not trust her as far as he can throw he if he thinks she is on his side.

She is sniping at many Democrats now more regularly, like picking them off one by one.

[Bushknew]

2. Mandate to get us out of Iraq …

She and Murtha are right on.