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Hillary’s Move To Center Angers Left

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Blogging, General Politics

Imagine that.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s call for an ideological cease-fire in the Democratic Party drew an angry reaction yesterday from liberal bloggers and others on the left, who accused her of siding with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) in a long-running dispute over the future of the party.

Long a revered figure by many in the party’s liberal wing, Clinton (D-N.Y.) unexpectedly found herself under attack after calling Monday for a cease-fire among the party’s quarreling factions and for agreeing to assume the leadership of a DLC-sponsored initiative aimed at developing a more positive policy agenda for the party.

Does this tell anybody that she’s making the right move?

Members of Daily Kos are disappointed:

The most pointed critique of Clinton came in one of the most influential blogs on the left, Daily Kos out of Berkeley, Calif., which called Clinton’s speech “truly disappointing” and said she should not provide cover for an organization that often has instigated conflict within the party.

“If she wanted to give a speech to a centrist organization truly interested in bringing the various factions of the party together, she could’ve worked with NDN,” the blog said in a reference to the New Democrat Network, with which Daily Kos’s Markos Moulitsas is associated. “Instead, she plans on working with the DLC to come up with some common party message yadda yadda yadda. Well, that effort is dead on arrival. The DLC is not a credible vehicle for such an effort. Period.”

Unfortunate. She’s trying to find common ground and more and more left bloggers move to the fringe.

Let’s hope they come back.

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One Response to “Hillary’s Move To Center Angers Left”

Donklephant » Blog Archive » Kos, Frank and the DLC Says:
August 4th, 2005 at 8:02 am
[...] Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog, rounds up a couple of pieces about the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council.) Fafnir writes: Sometimes I just can’t stop worryin about the Democratic Party an its terrible internal divisions an stuff. [...]

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