Compare Kos's immediate position on the end of the Hackett Campaign with the
response from Jim Dean, chairman of Democracy for America (& Howard's borther):
"....Our community understands the importance of this, and regrets that we must continue to baby-sit the congressional leadership until they have the maturity, confidence, and discipline to embrace and encourage the kind of innovative campaigns that Paul brought to the Party.
Today that baby-sitting job got a lot tougher. Even after 15 years of losing, too much of our leadership continues to waste valuable time and donors' hard earned money trying to maintain a party machine in second place. They do this by trying to bring new and exciting ideas to heal for the sake of their own second place status, because to them second place in DC is better than fighting for our country, our values and our party...."
more below the fold:
Kos's diary expressing a somewhat different position, picked up immediately in
WaPo, is
here.
Compare also Howard Dean's personal and immediate response on the official DNC blog, distancing himself and DNC from the DSCC, DCCC decision. (Of course, there's only so much he can say while maintaining that neutrality, but I think the fact of this post speaks volumes).
I mean, we'll all have to work together but we have to at least acknowledge when something wrong goes down, and not just roll over without a complaint. Of course, I'm not questioning anybody's real commitments, but do think this judgment call was a misstep on Kos's part. What do you think?