Much to do about nothing Redux

It seems Bob Brigham and Kos have done what they think is a tag team on the DLC and really set them back. Really is it pretty pathetic to pick on low level staffers like I was or poor interns.

So the database hadn't been updated, big deal, I forgot to get rid of people after November and these politicans don't exactly call the DLC to tell us they would like their name removed. While they admit "many of these names are people who have left office or where defeated" they claim that these people haven't been replaced and thus the movement is losing its influence.

But before they put on their dancing shoes for the tombstone, they should remember that ALL Democrats have been losing in the last four years, so one would expect them to lose many too. Of course, they will reply with a comment that says that this proves that the DLC method is no better (or actually worse) than the Wellstone method.

So let's go to the meat: Gavin Newsom. During the run up to his campaign for mayor, the campaign manager told me that they had to tread carefully with us because San Francisco Democrats hate the DLC and, as liberal as Gavin was nationally, he was the conservative in this race. I wrote an article about his "Care not Cash" campaign for Blueprint (the DLC's magazine) and made him New Dem of the Week once too.

To be honest, politicians use the DLC like the DLC uses them. They want the DLC for the contacts, fundraising, and yes good policy ideas. The DLC wants them to show they are still important post-Clinton and claim that they have their finger in rising stars and can tell the DC establishment who will be the next Governor, Mayor, Senator, or Congress[wo]man. Some politicians use the DLC and then throw them away when the heat from liberal groups like MoveOn gets to big.

And for another thing Bob and Kos have criticized the DLC for wanting to "purge" groups like MoveOn "from the party's ranks." Yet in the same breath, they cannot wait to pump the flames of the blogosphere's/their attempt to purge the DLC from the Democratic Party. There's that old saying about pointing figures, so I won't repeat it. I just want them to stop patting themselves on the backs long enough to realize how pathetic their "victory" was.