California Conservative

That’s what will happen if this AP article is accurate. Here’s why I have that opinion:

Steve Rosenthal, a former political director for the AFL-CIO who helped build the new coalition, said the group wanted to highlight members of Congress who were out of step with their congressional districts. “We used Tauscher, Cuellar and Wynn as good examples,” he said. “But we didn’t want to make the whole discussion or debate about those three members.”

The Web site now features Jim Webb, the newly elected Democratic senator from Virginia, as a lawmaker who “is working for us.” It applauds Webb’s official Democratic response to President Bush’s State of the Union speech for singling out economic disparities and lamenting job losses, higher college tuition and more expensive health care.

“We will put a spotlight on best behavior and bad behavior,” Rosenthal said. “We’ll now accept nominations for people who really are out of step.” In addition to Rosenthal, the coalition also includes top officials from MoveOn.org, the liberal grass-roots organizing group, several unions and blogger Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, who founded the DailyKos Web site.

It’s downright scary to think that there’s a group out there that thinks that Ellen Tauscher and Albert Wynn aren’t progressive enough. That should tell you everything about this new organization and its goals.

This marks a change of strategy for Moulitsas, most likely because he knows that Kos can’t win without Big Labor’s help. That doesn’t mean that he’ll moderate his message. It simply means that he’s pulling the Democrats so far left that good ‘moderates’ like Joe Lieberman are getting run out of the party. Their leftward pull is so dramatic that it’ll likely cost Hillary the presidency.

Technorati Tags: Daily Kos, AFL-CIO, Big Labor, Hillary, Election 2008, MoveOn.org, Joe Lieberman, DLC

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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