That WONDERFUL Dana Milbank Mansplains To Us Why We Enviros Are The Tea Party Of The Left!

[hatrack]

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I’ve heard this argument before, coming from tea party activists who said that they would rather have a smaller but reliably conservative caucus than a large majority full of RINOs — Republicans in Name Only — who aren’t reliable votes. The emerging purists on the left aren’t nearly as strong as the tea party was (and they won’t be, as long as there’s a Democrat in the White House), but it’s noteworthy that Democrats are becoming more willing to purge those who aren’t ideologically pure.

The midterm elections, a protest against Washington dysfunction, have paradoxically reinforced the problem by sweeping moderate Democrats out of the Senate (and a few who had remained in the House). Many liberals will now say — as Republicans did after the 2006 and 2008 defeats — that the way back to the majority is to be pugnaciously progressive. This will be seen with immigration and other issues, too. President Obama has shown little interest so far in compromise, and Harry Reid, becoming Senate minority leader, is a former boxer who still loves to brawl.

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Karthik Ganapathy, a coordinator of the event from the climate-change group 350, was also pleased with the prospect of a smaller, more liberal Democratic caucus in the Senate. I asked whether he saw any difference between Landrieu and Cassidy. “If there is, it’s marginal,” Ganapathy said. “And we think the value gained in showing the Democratic Party that they need to be better on climate issues outweighs the marginal differences. . . . This is about sort of instigating a cultural shift and a political shift that sends a message to politicians that they all need to be better on climate issues.” In other words: Be pure, or be afraid.

One of the speakers, a young woman named Maria Langholz, argued that liberals must stop Democrats from “compromising on the promises they have made.” I pointed out that her message sounded like the tea party.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-here-comes-the-tea-party-of-the-left/2014/11/17/6ea6aada-6e8e-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html

[silverweb]

1. Well...

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]The Tea Party pulled the GOP and the whole country to the right, as we all know too well.

Presumably, a pugnaciously leftist subset of liberals can help pull the Democrats and the whole country back from RWNJ control, more to the center-left.

Kinda makes sense, if you ask me.

[lob1]

2. There's a movie out about Milbank. It's called "Dana and Dana-er".

[hatrack]

4. I thought it was called "Cokie Roberts With A Dick" . . .

. . . but I may have been misinformed.

[Cleita]

3. Well eff him.

He isn't relevant anyway. Neither side cares for him and his opinions.