MoveOn is "very conservative?" Ask Code Pink

By: Lowell
Published On: 8/9/2007 8:18:16 AM

This is ridiculous:

Leslie Angeline, an activist with Code Pink who staged a 24-day hunger strike in the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to protest his position on Iran, said she dropped her membership from MoveOn after it supported that measure.

"MoveOn is very conservative," Angeline said. "When they said, `We should support the supplemental,' they betrayed us."

MoveOn is "very conservative?"  Wow, I wonder what Bill O'LIElly and friends will think of THAT?!? It should be amusing, if nothing else.

The Hill article also quotes Sue Udry, legislative action coordinator for United for Peace and Justice, as accusing MoveOn of being "more partisan" - in the sense of bashing Republicans and not Democrats - than her group is.  According to Udry, "We're essentially two different animals."

Perhaps they are "different animals," but whether they're cat or dog, they both want the U.S. out of Iraq as soon as possible.  Whether that's best accomplished by going after the people who are overwhelmingly responsible for the war - Bush and his Republican enablers in Congress - or turning on natural allies in the Democratic Party is the question.  Personally, I vote strongly for the former option, if for no other reason than it's the only hope of actually getting substantive policy change in this area.  What will attacking Democrats get anyone?  A lot of bad blood, but besides that, I have no idea.  Meanwhile, if MoveOn is "very conservative," then what does that make Bush, Cheney, et al?  I'm afraid to ask.

Comments



A House divided against itself cannot stand (Silence Dogood - 8/9/2007 11:14:10 AM)
n/t


This is just what Bush and Co want (Nick Stump - 8/9/2007 8:47:22 PM)
This lack of unity is appalling.  One thing I hate about the progressive blogoshere is the ease in which different groups turn on each other and how easily they turn on the Democratic Party. 

When we won back Congress in 06, (much credit to RK) everyone was talking about the big tent party.  Now, a very short time later, different factions are trying their best to tear the movement apart. 

Lately centrist Democrats in Congress have been the target.  November 06, Jim Webb is the savior of the party.  Now he's the whipping dog who voted for FICA.  Shame on us. 

This is sort of thinking that encouraged Nader to undermine a Democratic victory that would have kept George Bush in Texas.

Everyone in the progressive movement is acting like we have it won in '08.  We keep up the infighting, we'll be right back outside--looking in.