How’s that? By just going with the flow and being nice to those who vote against your wishes.

The fact of the matter is the mainstream Dem stance on issues and the issues GG is pounding these Blue Dogs on enjoy the majority support of US public opinion. Pushing for the Rule of Law and require warrants are not radical positions.

So you can dream on about this hurting the Dem party. GOPer stand up for their principles, take the heat and get respect for doing so. Dems need to do the same.

KK nailed it. Those “conservative” (actualy centrist/moderate) Dems have their seats because they reflect the composition of their constituents. Beat them out with lefties in the primaries, and guess what? The Republicans will run centrists/moderates who will take those seats away.

Republicans should’t get too happy–they’re also pretty good at eating their own. Notice what happened to Jim Kolbe’s seat last round when the far right pushed their guy through the primary.

I herewith pledge to send Greenwald a packet of Famous Dave’s barbecue sauce.

I’m hoping the Dems are successful in purging the Blue Dog Dems and realizing Avinash’s dream of establishing the Dems as a party that is representative of no more than one third of the electorate. Perhaps a coalition of disenfranchised limited government Republicans, fiscal conservatives, Blue Dog Dems, and small “l” libertarians, can emerge as a real opposition party that stands for something.

America needs to be more liberal.

If only you were king, Glenn! ROTFL. America is what it is, and that’s a nation with liberals somtly on the coasts and in decaying industrialized regions, and conservatives everywhere else. Thankfully for regular folks, neither the GOP nore the Democrats can govern without the help of sensible moderates.

The lesson someone above alluded to? The one liberals never learn? Conservative partisans never learn it either. It’s this:

Too much insistence upon ideological purity leads to minority status.

So unless minority status is actually the promised land, it’s time for zealots to update the dogma. The funny thing about this is that both parties are in various stages of denial. The democrats have just re-aken the majority and they are already looking around to kick out the insufficiently devout. Meanwhile, the GOp faithful have already put the “100% truth” stamp on the notion that the reason they lost the majority is because of insufficient fealty to core values.

I am amused that Greenwald specifically mentions running ads against two incumbent Democrats who are in very competitive districts, yet does not mention working against the many Democrats from safe seats who voted for the FISA bill. Those are the sensible targets, but I suppose they’re considered loyal enough on other issues.

By Damozel | First Pelosi on The Daily Show. I want to be fair, so let’s let her speak for herself. Man, only Nancy Pelosi could be so banal when chatting with Jon Stewart. Sorry…guh…LET HER SPEAK FOR HERSELF….