As a long-time lurker/first-time poster, I am probably biting off far more than I can chew here. I know I'm late on this, but a tension seems to be percolating through out many subsequent conversations on this site, and if we take a step back to focus on what purpose we want to ultimately serve, hopefully we will see a more constructive way to approach these moments in the future.
Let's say we keep score of the points of intellectual substance in the recent debate between Kos, Kilgore and Wittman over the bankruptcy bill, Lieberman, and the larger issue of the DLC's attacks on bloggers, and the party's left-wing in general. Clearly Kos has the DLCers out-pointed. Jonathan Chait, a DLC-style Dem centrist, admitted as much over at TPM when he pointed out that Wittman never offered a rational defense of Lieberman's vote against cloture. And Kos is correct that the DLC affiliates do hit the talk show circuit as designated-bashers of the left wing of the party, and in doing so they are harming the party and its efforts to unify.
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