Kos, a little known "front-pager" right here at Daily Kos, and Glenn Greenwald over at Unclaimed Territory have interesting posts rebuffing GOP post-election spin. Both address the twin pillars of said spin; that a) the newly elected Democratic majority will fail because of its out-of-the-mainstream, leftist-Pelosi agenda, and b) the newly elected Democratic majority will fail because it is so very conservative.
The fissures within the Democratic Party coalition are already tearing the party apart, don't-cha-know. For example, how will the Cindy-Sheehan-out-of-Iraq-now-ist radicals work with conservative, Democratic hawks like John "Immediate Redeployment" Murtha? Surely, the winds of another perfect storm of Demcractic failure are once again blowing.
Well, I want to let you in on a little secret. The progressive American left is moderate. Furthermore, the progressive American left is centrist. Let me explain how I arrive at this startling conclusion.
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