Reply #40: I don't think I would have used the term "professional left" [View All]

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

But I know what Gibbs meant. There's a small cadre of people who think that anything other than a British-style national health system is a corporatist sell-out. These same people want to ban firearms and the internal combustion engine. They want to disband the military and set up re-education camps for Wall Street brokers.

I exaggerate a little, but not a lot.

Just as not every Republican (and not ever conservative) is a raving Michelle Bachman-style nutjob, not ever liberal is a Jane Hamsher. They have their extremists, and we have ours. And not to put too fine a point on this, look what the rise of the lunatic right has done to the Republican Party. Now that they're being defined by their fringe elements, they're virtually assured of electoral defeat.

There are some people (including me) who will NOT allow this to happen to the Democratic Party.