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Don't throw me in that briar patch

By Michael J. Smith on Tuesday June 13, 2006 12:52 PM

Katrina vanden Heuvel waxes wroth that
Peter Beinart, for example, who was a supporter of the Iraq disaster ... has joined New Dems like Al From in urging Democrats to prove their resolve by purging the left from the Democratic party....
Well, I never thought I would have a good word to say for Beinart, but I'm with him 100% on this one. I think all Democrats should be made to swear an oath vowing support for ongoing war in Iraq, upcoming war in Iran, ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, fifty-cent gasoline, and the exportation of all jobs better-paid than chambermaid and worse-paid than investment banker, to India.

It's high time the Democratic Party took a stand for its principles. No more shilly-shallying. If you're not with the program, you don't belong in the party.

Comments (6)

Tim D:

MJS - We should all make sure to keep this article so we can each send it to vanden Heuvel in October 2008, when she will predictably be begging and pleading for us to vote for Hillary...

js paine:

damn fine idea
since kos won't let us throw them out
force em to throw us out

make it like
the wild days
of the berlin blockade
and the de fenestration
of selma hyak's uncle

and here's the chery on top
even if we're purged
at tom tomorrow speed
five years hence
the real cons
will still be saying..

"who lost iraq ???? "
and pointing at the donk establishment
for let us left-oidals
control em ....

Remember, though. Only Nader's millions are relevant in an election year. If you bring up vandenH's, it's cheating... ;)

DANG, you're funny. You are killing me. I am really going to have to put this on my blog

Wait, wasn't that fifty cent gas and Palestine ethinic cleaning thing in the donk '04 platform? Yeah, I sure it was. Right around the place where they define man/woman marriage.

Good list:

I think all Democrats should be made to swear an oath vowing support for ongoing war in Iraq, upcoming war in Iran, ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, fifty-cent gasoline, and the exportation of all jobs better-paid than chambermaid and worse-paid than investment banker, to India.

But you forgot the requiremnt to suck up to the religious right and talk ad naseum about "spiritual values". We really don't want any atheists or freethinkers in the Democratic Party.

It could scare swing voters in the Midwest.

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