Rage of The Machine
Genocide be damned: Full speed ahead!
WASHINGTON, May 4 — Every morning, representatives from a cluster of antiwar groups gather for a conference call with Democratic leadership staff members in the House and the Senate.
...Behind the scenes, an elaborate political operation, organized by a coalition of antiwar groups and fine-tuned to wrestle members of Congress into place one by one, has helped nudge the debate forward.
...On Thursday, leaders of ...MoveOn.org… sent a harshly worded warning to the Democratic leadership.
“In the past few days, we have seen what appear to be trial balloons signaling a significant weakening of the Democratic position,” the letter read. “On this, we want to be perfectly clear: if Democrats appear to capitulate to Bush — passing a bill without measures to end the war — the unity Democrats have enjoyed and Democratic leadership has so expertly built, will immediately disappear.”
...if Democrats passed a bill “without a timeline and with all five months of funding,” they would essentially be endorsing a “war without end.” MoveOn, it said, “will move to a position of opposition."
"The central strategy is creating that toxic environment for people who want to continue this debacle [Iraq]"
The coalition, which has raised $7.1 million since January, has concentrated its activities on 57 House districts and senators in nine states...
At least, now we know who’s in charge of the Democratic Party.
Posted by ZZMike on 05/08/07 at 01:45 PM
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