Legal Commentary

Beltway Dems And The Blogs: Which Is Which?

By Big Tent Democrat

Example 1:

Single mothers gathered at the laundromat are all talking about one thing: FISA. Don't believe it? Then - unlike many left-wing bloggers and activists, known as the "net roots" - you're in touch with reality. . . . They claim to want to win, yet they're determined to malign the Democratic nominee for doing what he always said he would do: make compromises and find the middle ground.

Example 2:

[P]rogressives and Democrats are up to the same old internal sniping: single issue people bashing Obama for moving to the middle or voting a certain way on FISA. . . .

Example 1? Fox Democrat Kristen Powers. Example 2? Faux Progressive and Talking Points Memo Clinton Hater Theda Skopcol. More . . .

To actually treat either of these pieces seriously would of course be ridiculous. Neither Powers nor Skopcol knows a damn thing about what the FISA issue is about. A couple of silly people. But it is instructive of what has happened to some parts of the so called Left blogosphere. I do wonder though if Skopcol agrees with this from Powers:

Grow up, net rooters: You're going to see more Obama compromises with reality, more shifts to address what the real Democratic base cares about.

And if she does, is there any "compromise" Obama might make that might earn a word of reproach for Obama from her.

Speaking for me only.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on July 14, 2008 (boomark / email).