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January 16, 2006
Peter Daou on the Dysfunctional Liberal Establishment
Daou's astute point is that the Democratic establishment has utterly failed to incorporate the power of the blogosphere and take their message to the media, leaving them completely ineffectual on issue after issue - the Alito hearings, the warrentless wiretapping outrage, and so on.
One might hope that Dean being in charge of the DNC would have improved things, but the bottom line appears to be that the Democratic establishment - especially in the Senate - is far to the right of the grassroots, with little interest in the kind of structural reform and courageous backbenching that might threaten their own power bases - even if, at the national level, the party is currently powerless.
Posted by tedf at January 16, 2006 07:33 PM
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