This afternoon mcjoan had a diary about your discussion with some of the netroot bloggers, explaining how we need to prioritize (pick our battels) and practice patience in the political field of battle.
Much of the premise for your defense of allowing the netroots to be sabatoged by the Democratic leadership's keeping Senator Lieberman, not only within the Democratic caucus, but chairman of commitiee(s) had, IMHO, a flase assumption.
I quote mcjoan's article here:.............."So if you run and get a mandate for reconciliation is your first act to kick this guy out of the party? Well, people of my generation think yeah, damn right we should. But in this new spirit of reconciliation, which is why I think Barack Obama got elected by 66 percent of the under 35 vote, maybe if not (unintelligible) I'm very willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the Senators and to Barack Obama on that one."
I ask, was the mandate for reconciliation at all costs, or was reconciliation the point of so much of the mandate? Reconciliation based on principles is my assertion.
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