Remember this:
by kos
Mon
Aug 22nd, 2005 at 01:18:42 PDT
Two more weeks, folks, before we take them on, head on.
No calls for a truce will be brooked. The DLC has used those pauses in the past to bide their time between offensives. Appeals to party unity will fall on deaf ears (it’s summer of a non-election year, the perfect time to sort out internal disagreements).
We need to make the DLC radioactive. And we will. With everyone’s help, we really can. Stay tuned.
Then there was this:
“KATRINA SPARES THE DLC”
I’ve laid off the DLC for the time being. The Katrina disaster has not only made this sort of intra-party fight a bit counterproductive at the moment, but it has refocused the allies and media I was going to engage in the campaign to the more important task of getting to the bottom of the disaster on the gulf coast.
The window has closed for now.
by kos on Wed Sep 14th, 2005 at 21:44:09 PDT
Boy that was a close call for the DLC… but hey.. was it really???
Well whaddya know … the DLC Hack and all their DLC hackery glory are Front Paged on DailyKos as I live and breath.
Well let’s see what the DLC has to say that it deserves front page billing. Here are a few salient point that caught my eye:
While there is plenty of blame to go around in the public mind, Republicans have done an excellent job of painting this as a failure of state and local government. While the vast majority of Americans say all levels of government failed, the numbers are slightly higher and the intensity is greater among those who see the mistakes of Katrina as a failure of state and local government.
So without playing the blame game… the DLC “highlights” the blame is on the state and local government.
Most Americans reject interpretations of the federal government’s failure as being influenced by the race of the victims. But the racial dynamic could be obscuring a broader economic interpretation, not tested in any of these surveys, in which the Bush administration’s decision to award new contracts to Halliburton while thousands of victims were still stranded and fighting for their lives reveals their unwavering commitment to the interests of their corporate supporters over ordinary Americans of all stripes.
Most Americans (and the entire world) are not blind saw clearly that race influenced the rescue efforts.
It is still too early to fully measure it, but Katrina seems to be having an impact on attitudes toward Iraq. In my memo, I note that no one has asked the direct trade-off between rebuilding the Gulf Coast and rebuilding Iraq. But the fine folks at NBC, whose NBC/Wall St. Journal poll was released after the memo was written, pointed out to me that they had in fact asked that question (but also offered `both’ as an option), and the results are pretty dramatic – 60% say rebuilding the Gulf Coast should be our higher priority, while 5% say rebuilding Iraq and establishing a democratic government there is the top priority and 34% opt for both. In the same poll, reducing spending on the war in Iraq is far and away the top choice for actions that should be taken to pay for hurricane relief efforts.
Funny, that seemed to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue…kinda even remember hearing Mayor Nagin through his tears talk about this…
Yup, the same GOP Talking Point spewing DLC hacks they always were. And they wonder why “single issues” folks are holding on dearly to their beliefs…
Geez, what part of “we don’t trust you” with our “pet issues” don’t they get?
