Open Left

The initial goal:

"[...] several years of trying to "retake" the Democratic Party and make it more progressive [....]"

... was pretty much doomed when the Netroots failed to generate a 360 degree s*** storm every time BHO ran Harry and Louise. All of the kabuki theater since and for the duration is now fate. The magnitude of the Joe problem is merely an artifact of the bipartisan BS many so-called progressives bought into a year and a half ago.

Adoption of the marketing campaign to put the partisan conflicts of the '90s behind us was a willful decision to screw the members of our society who have to be defended in order to do, what? Fell good about voting for a cool frat boy with few discernible policies or principles?

Lieberman, like the public option debate is a deception from the reality that voters are not part of this inside game, and that the insiders have one of their guys at the helm.

I have to ask, a year and a half ago, when Goldman Sachs and the rest of Wall Street picked a kid from out of town over either of the major NY candidates, why didn't we sound the klaxons and chase corruption's candidate back to Chicago?

Heckofajob, Netroots.

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by: Pacific John @ Tue Jun 23, 2009 at 12:55:41 PM CDT