Thursday, November 07, 2002

Comrades, we must purge the deviationists!
Harold Meyerson in the American Prospect:
The first order of business for Democrats is clear: They must dump the utterly discredited masterminds of their disaster. Dick Gephardt, Tom Daschle, and Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, a let's-make-a-deal businessman and fundraiser of no discernible strategic savvy, went up against a popular president by crafting an indistinct message for undefined candidates. Labor leaders from AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on down should throw their considerable weight behind the efforts to drive these money changers from the party's inner sanctum.
Hey, you forgot Bubba and the Witch Queen! John Podhoretz also comments on Meyerson.

Actually, it's not clear to me why Gephardt is on the list. Daschle and Eddie Haskell McAuliffe were responsible for the most egregious stupidity and the biggest losses. But the wingnut branch of the Democrat party wants Baghdad Nancy Pelosi to lead a putsch. Stand by for the Democrat Civil War.