Accountability Now: Already Rattling Some Nerves
Someone’s feeling a little threatened:
YELLIN: You know, some Democrats like to say they can be their own worst enemies. Well now a liberal group of Democrats is organizing and raising money to target some of their own. They say they’re worried about keeping certain Democratic members of Congress honest.
[VIDEO] MARKOS: If you’re an elected official and you’re representing your constituents, you have nothing to fear.
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YELLIN: That’s Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the Daily Kos. He’s one of the most powerful liberal bloggers and a leader in the progressive movement. Moulitsas is worried about his own party, and he’s warning Democratic lawmakers not to be influenced by powerful corporate lobbyists.
[VIDEO] MARKOS: This whole town is sort of an incumbent protection racket.
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Yellin: Now he’s teaming up with other progressive bloggers [shows DFA, MoveOn, 21st Century Democrats, blogpac.org, SEIU logos] as well as several liberal groups and a powerful union to keep Congressional Democrats honest. His plan? Raise enough money to support liberal challengers who have a good shot at taking down certain incumbent Democrats in next year’s primaries. The group dismisses charges that they’re hurting their own party, which for the first time in 14 years controls Congress and the White House.
[VIDEO] HAMSHER: A healthy primary market within the Democratic party – we think it’s good for the people and we think it’s good for the party.
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YELLIN: Now the Democratic National Committee has no comment and the political arm for House Democrats says – look – they’re just committed to electing more Democrats to the House.
Wolf, this is just a headache the Democrats do not need.
Articles like this are testimony to the threat that a PAC like ACCOUNTABILITY NOW poses to the status quo in DC. They’re calling us a headache, but there’s some cold sweat behind those harsh words. A lot of us are well fed-up with the bullshit we’ve tolerated over the past 2-8 years, from the refusal to stop Alito to the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to the Wall Street Bailout to the pandering to nativists and bigots and a lot more. I’m no purist by any definition, but there are some core values I expect my party to uphold. There’s no compromising on the Fourth Amendment or habeas corpus.
Like millions of others, spanning a continuum of left to right, I demand Accountability NOW. Our taxes pay the bills and goddamn it, you are going to answer to US.
February 26th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
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