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When I spoke at the Living Liberally conference in Des Moines, I talked about the importance of building the kind of movement where we had each other's backs. We're going to disagree a lot in terms of tactics and tone, in terms of specific ways forward on some policies, in terms of which candidates we like in primaries and how much to criticize Democrats, etc. But we have to stand together when the going gets tough and the right wing comes after us.
I know that not everyone in the progressive movement was totally comfortable with the MoveOn ad about Gen. Petraeus, but whatever you thought, the right wing is now coming for them with all their hounds baying. This censure resolution in the Senate is a load of crap, designed to intimidate and silence strong dissent on the war. Democrats should both stand tall with MoveOn, and start shoving all the hatefilled quotes from Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, O'Reilly, Dobson, Robertson, etc. down their throat. Dems should file a hundred such censure resolutions before this piece of crap ever comes to the floor.
Whatever the Dems do, though, this movement should stand strong with MoveOn, all of us defending their right to speak out and their position on the war to the hilt. To the barricades, friends, because if this bullshit goes down without an outcry from all of us, they'll come for us next.
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