What Marshall Wittman is:There has been a fair amount of discussion about Wittman (aka the
Bull Moose) since he castigated critics of Bush's warrantless NSA wiretaps. The latest in this vein is David Sirota's entry at the Huffington Post,
Why the DLC Is So Dangerous to Democrats, which is almost completely devoted to examining Wittman.
People argue about Wittman. Are his Christian Coalition days truly over?
Is he a real Democrat? What does his membership in the DLC mean? Does he have the best interests of the Democratic Party in mind? Should people pay attention to this guy?
If you follow the Moose's advocacy of issues and tactical advice, you will see that what Whittman is, is:
A guy trying to align the Democratic Party with the policy position of John McCain. So that McCain can be elected president.
That's his mission. He supported McCain in 2000 and he's managed to infiltrate the Democratic sphere, via the I'm-a-critic-of-Bush-portal, in order to defeat liberal opinion and to persuade Democrats that a McCain-like entity is the way to go.
Don't be fooled. All the Bull Moose's "straight talk" is nothing more than a channeling of McCain's "straight talk".
posted by Quiddity at 1/12/2006 11:24:00 PM
I fear that once Bush is flushed down into the porcelain realm of history, people will say "Yeah, we all knew HE was a chimp, but this McCain deserves my vote!"
I think Taibbi sums it up pretty well.
http://www.nypress.com/18/2/news&columns/taibbi.cfm
Once again, I’ve pulled something out of Tony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook, and changed it up a bit. The recipe started out as Onglet Gascon. However, the bone marrow didn’t turn out. Also, I figure why use half a cup of white wine and reduce it by half, if you can instead use a cup of dry sherry and reduce it by three-quarters. That, and you just can’t get onglets on short notice in this town, so I went with sirloin steaks, instead.
