More trouble in Democrat-land:
Longtime Democratic strategist Pat Caddell on Wednesday blasted the Obama White House for creating “a world in which there is no dissent,” following his banishment from Colorado Democrat Andrew Romanoff’s campaign for Senate.
Caddell, in a phone interview with The Daily Caller, doubled down on the comments he made in November that he said public sector employee unions in Colorado used as leverage to get him tossed from the Romanoff campaign.
“What I said about Andy Stern and the SEIU? Sure, they’re thugs,” said Caddell, a former adviser to President Jimmy Carter, who until Monday* had an informal advising role with the primary challenger to incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet.
Caddell said he does not fault Romanoff, a former state House speaker, for cutting ties with him after his remarks from November — in which he called the Service Employee Union International (SEIU) “thugs” and said the goal of the environmental movement is to “deconstruct capitalism” — were made public.
But Caddell said the comments were pushed into the public spotlight by the state chapters of the SEIU and the AFL-CIO, who called on the Romanoff campaign to get rid of him or risk losing any chance of getting labor’s endorsement.
They really are starting to eat their own. The Unions demand no dissent. The pro-abortion fanatics demand no dissent. On and on it goes – only slaves to the powerful are permitted in the Democrat party, it would seem.
I think it really comes down to the fact that they think they really won in a positive sense in 2008 – that they won because people wanted liberal Democrats, as opposed to not wanting President Bush and the GOP (and now, of course, more and more people long for the Bush Administration). Democrats had a really solid chance of gaining a lot of power for a long time – but they would have had to govern from the center. This seems an impossible task.
Why is that? Because the Democrats allowed kook leftists to hijack the party. Once Michael Moore was invited to the party any chance of reasonableness or compromise became impossible – when you honor a liar because his lies make you feel good about your absurd hatred of someone, then you are very far gone.
Can they come back to the center? There is still a window of opportunity – but its small and closing fast. As things are heading right now, even an improved economy won’t help the Democrats in November (especially given that any “improvement” will be smoke and mirrors having no discernible effect on the day to day lives of non-government Americans). Only a complete shift away from the left will do the trick…and now we hear that Obamacare might be forced through via reconciliation; not the thing you’d be hearing if Democrats were awake to their peril.
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