Taibbi makes a good point, but to tar the entire Ivy League with it is ill considered. The unwashed leftist hordes that make up the “blogosphere” include a majority of the faculty, and a big chunk of the alumni, of the Harvard, Brown and Yale educated yuppies Taibbi lumps in with Brooks and the DLC.

The DLC is a cancer on the Democratic Party. They are little more than a bunch of Republican moles who agree with Grover Norquist’s ideology of everyone for themselves. Their favorite candidates are ineffective, spineless weasels who cave in on nearly every issue no matter what their constituents think. DLC support has enabled Democrats In Name Only to be co-opted into voting for the Republican/Bush agenda, leaving real Democrats standing alone and impotent.

Pundits who refer to Lieberman as a “centrist” candidate only demonstrate how far right the DLC has moved the Democratic Party. Now the new Incumbent Party serves its corporate contributors and derides real Democrats who care about what this war and other administration policies have cost Americans in domestic and foreign goodwill and lives. If we do not get more men and women, like Ned Lamont, representing us are doomed to go further down the road of war, environmental catastrophe and greed.

As for Lieberman, he should listen to how Norquist describes “bi-partisanship.” To him, it’s date rape.

There is no significant difference between either party because they both follow the dictates of Rothschild via Rockefeller.

The Democrats aren’t doomed, the idea of a democratic America is doomed. 2 Parties, both on the same payroll, working for the same mega syndicate.
PS. I can’t wait till the Christian right decides to get in the way of the corporate interests. The Roman carnage will be like a holiday in Bermuda.
signed “learning to goose-step”

My governor is the current chariman for the DLC, Tom Vilsack. He aspires to the presidency. Six years of his DLC-inspired misrule has just about soured me on the Democratic Party.

Huh. I noticed a reference to the Ivy League only in the beginning, when it’s used as a demonstration of BROOKS’s fantasies about Ivy League women mating with other Ivy Leaguers. Nothing about the Ivy Leaguers being the ones railed against, or that the blogosphere didn’t have Ivy Leaguers in it. Go back and read it more carefully, and you’ll see that Taibbi didn’t do that.

As for the party’s survival… I’m not optimistic. Too many of its pols are willing to sell out the citizens to corporate interests. The trend is probably irreversible now. That’s how far over the line we’ve gone.

The Democrats cannot articulate a coherent and moral position and hope to get elected. The corporate media simply will not stand for it.

Look how the media jumped all over Howard Dean, whose behavior was rather normal, not manic as the media protrayed him. His sin? Having showed guts and moral clarity early on in critcizing our tragic misadventure in Iraq.

I don’t think the Democrats are “doomed”. I have a pretty good suspicion that the DLC may be doomed though. The Repugnicans have thrown down the gauntlet. They are going to rape the treasury and pilliage the Constitution until we stop them. There is no other major party that has the possibility of ousting the sleaze-bags other than the Democrats. The DLC’s penchant for being “Republican-Lite” is going to be their undoing. In the upcoming elections, anything that resembles less than full-throttle oposition to the radicals who ran this great country into the ditch is going to be doomed. The sense of anger in the political winds is palpable. Even many Republicans are bailing out on the Bushies.

Here’s an idea: the Democratic Party should support Lieberman instead of fighting amongst themselves. Americans want a Left-Middle President, not a Left-Left President. Honestly, you saw what happened in choosing a wishy washy far left Presidental nominee (Kerry). The answer to everything is in front of them but their too close minded to rethink anything.

I can expect to get the traditional “Democrats are doomed” stories in the mainstream media, but in The Rolling Stone? This is just a regurgatation of Republican talking point number one: the democrats are losers, and wimps. The author said it himself, upwards of 400,000 people read DailyKos every day. The people-powered movement is surging across the country, from Connecticut to Virgina to Montana, the people are defying the tradational centrist Democratic leadership and nominating progressive candidates. So why is it exactly that we are doomed? Enough with all the self degradation, we need more impassioned voices about why exactly we are Democrats and what we stand for in this critical time in our nation’s history. The Republican leadership in this country is drunk on power and corporate lobbyists, and if all the author can say is that “Democrats are doomed,” then he might as well give up and move to Canada.

I’m just happy Taibbi has a weekly column again. I was bummed when he left his New York Press gig.

I don’t even think Matt’s saying that the Democratic Party is doomed. I think he’s saying that the Party is doomed if it allows the DLC and slime like Brooks to run it. One hope that this era is coming to an end. Who knows?

I browsed the comments today and boy isn’t it sad. Some mad, detached, living room zionist – Kadosh, along with Capitalist pig, vehemently trying to make everyone shut up about Israel being big oil’s proxy. C Co smelling propaganda in piece on Lieberman. Because of Kadosh, pig and C co new holocaust is drawing nearer every four years.

Great to see I’ll be able to read Taibbi on a weekly basis again; his columns were the only reason to read the NY Press.

It’s really no secret that the Democrats have the same corporate sponsors as the Republicans. Maybe we can vote the Demoocrats in but we can’t vote the corporatocracy out.

There are still only two choices, D and R. The choice in ‘06 is D. A super majority of voters agrees with this. If the Rs still maintain control of both houses of Congress in Jan. ‘07, the election was rigged. If the Ds have control of at least one house, it’s time to start making what Ds are clearer and clearer. That’s not a “cartoon world,” that’s reality.

I’m a dem central committee chair in rural Idaho, population under 10,000, mostly Republican, and our democrats agree with your opinion, Matt. What you said in this column is more representative of the average Democrat than the DLC could ever hope, or undoubtedly,imagine. Thanks!

The big tent houses a freak show. Some of the freaks are attractive, but the majority are just repulsive.

You’re a dumbass Cohen. Supporting Lieberman is not going to lead to another Holocaust. I don’t even remotely understand your thought process. Go give Michael Moore a blowjob.

I think that Brooks’ 8/3 column, in which the rich folk have become the true repository of hard-workin’ values and the working class has descended into ‘disability’-fueled idleness, makes Taibbi’s point for him. And it came out the day after Matt’s! Brooks sez:

“Through some screw-up in the moral superstructure, we now have a plutocratic upper class infused with the staid industriousness of Ben Franklin, while we are apparently seeing the emergence of a Wal-Mart leisure class — devil-may-care middle-age slackers who live off home-equity loans and disability payments so they can surf the History Channel and enjoy fantasy football leagues.

For the first time in human history, the rich work longer hours than the proletariat.”

Man. I did some laundry in B’klyn this evening. My neighbor, a lady who cleans office buildings all week and raises her grandchildren, was doing about six washers worth. Tough gig. How to break it to her?

I noted that he failed to note WHO founded the D.L.C….

what his former high-level Government position was…how he had been re-elected to it…or how he provided 8 years of peace and prosperity while in office.

The “purgers” gave us McGovern, Dukakis, and Kerry…..those evil centrists gave us Democrats our first White House in 12 years in 1992.

I stumbled on Matt’s piece- Its great in many ways- I have loathed David Brooks ever since he first came on my radar screen- Him and T.Friedman-in a different vein.
When will the Democrats, DLC etc and others GET IT- For the in power Repb. as Norquist TELLS US–Bi-partisanship is Date-rape- with R. raping D. The DLC – and I understand the corporate angle- is a reflection of the “liberal” “westernized” “enlightenment” personality that for reasons developped in various articles floating around is incapable of reacting forcefuly- to what’s in front of its nose. The Cheneys et al will screw us- plow us down and never look back. Just as the Islamists are doing all over the world. What would David Brooks have said to those who could see where Hitler was going– Oh, those nut-cases- “No one could possibly be thinking of let alone doing “such” horrible things.” Read John Dean’s new book.
Look at Roberts and Alito’s rulings since being on the bench. Exactly what some (me for sure) knew was coming- but those who cried that the wolf was coming to the court- were derided- as all who have the courage and lucidity to draw conclusions from past actions and words. What a choice- the power mad Republicans or the Feckless Democrats- and the unspeakable naive and easily manipulated natives. As it was and ever shall be.

The reason 400,000 Kos visitors are not enough is that, even if they all vote, they do so from districts gerrymandered to give the incumbent a 98% probability of remaining in office.
The rulers of the Democratic party sold out long ago, as anyone who watched the Nixon funeral knows.
Dean was the candidate of the “purgers”, sabotaged and replaced with Kerry by a “mystery” multimillion dollar fund since traced back to the DLC.
The republicans in Congress aren’t worried about losing, they just need to narrow the gigantic gap in approval so that it won’t so obvious that the elections are rigged when they “win.” They are quite happy that there are two (and only two) “major” parties, with a tame Democratic “leadership” willing to take the bribe and pretend to be a “loyal opposition” in the good cop-bad cop game they’ve been playing us with for so many decades.
There is hope for a grassroots revival, but always that the republicans view politics as total war and are already openly speculating about how to kill everyone who doesn’t agree with them. Merely voting is not likely to be enough.

Beel , You state that a super majority agrees with the democrats. What have you been smoking? The majority of Americans do not support the democrats far left agenda. Of course the dems are going to say every election they lose was rigged. That is the new game plan, since they have no real plan.

The democrats don’t even believe thier own far left bullshit. Ned Lemont is millionaire businessman, last time I checked that meant capitalist. His net worth is estimated between $90-$300 million. A large percentage of which he inherited (what happened to the death tax?). Just another “do as I say not as I do” rich liberal. He runs around talking socialism while praticing capitalism, and the morons on the left buy it. Over the weekend he was condeming Wal-Mart, the left’s new evil, while neglecting to mention he owns stock in the company.

Cohen – As for you, no point in wasting my time responding to your ignorant bullshit. Go back to your washed up hippie college professors and let them tell you what to think and say. One day you will grow up and maybe you will learn to think for yourself.

Politics equal Hypocracy, deviousness, without conscience, greed, ego, and all that a human can produce that is evil. Demoracts, Republicans, and any Independent party have these characteristics. Why argue pros & cons. Fancy rhetoric with legal jargon are trademarks of ALL political Advocates. The people of the world have to swim in the sewers spawned by these politifians. One of Lifes’ sufferings.

Why are we doomed? Is it because of our inability to lie? Or is it because of our dislike of patronizing smear campaigns? Is it because we don’t know how to spend money like a drunken sailor to the benefit of our buddies in the construction and military industrial complex? That must be it because all of our deficits added together don’t approach little Georgie’s alone, much left including big George and Ronnie.

THE IVY LEAGUE?

What the Hell are they learning there?

Not common sense for sure!

Ivy League graduates are responsible for nominating and electing a recidivist convicted felon to crash in the White House!

Have they learned to read and research before they choose a President of the United States?

If you examine the inept baboon now leading Anerica to ruin you will find that if his rotten resume and criminal yellow sheet was checked anyone of sound mind would conclude he was not eligible to be a janitor let alone President of the United States!

Are the Yalies, Harvards, Princetons et al aware that Bush
was convicted of drug possession and served a one year community service sentence in a black ghetto through policical intervention of his dad..Number 41?

Are they aware that Bush was a coke head and a three time DUI boozer loser?

Are they aware that Bush was an adulterer who lived with a tall blond named Tammie and his twin daughters had to beg him through tears for him to come home?

Are they aware that Bush is an abortionist who paid for the procedure in a Texas hospital for
a pregnant girl friend of his and thereby MURDERED his own child in her womb through an abortion!

And this is what they consider to be qualifications for the Presidency of the United States?

What the Hell are they learning in the Ivy League? Anything?

Roland C. Woodaka

The Democrats will continue to lose because the party has no ideas. When one gets to the center regarding economic issues, the Democrats are no different than the Republicans. The Democrats are owned by business and do the bidding of business. There really isn’t much difference between either party. As for the Democrats being “the party of the people,” that is a joke. It is the party of business just as the Republican party is. There is no party that serves the people. All they want is a person’s vote, and after the election, the people are forgotten about until the next election.

The Democrats are devoid of ideas. They are just as Republican as the Republicans. The Democrats are bought by business and do the bidding of business. If the Democrats want to get elected, they will have to come with ideas that appeal to people, and then act on them. As of now, they are Republicans. The country is a one party country.

The Democrat’s are not doomed. It is the people of a once great nation that face doom. It is the middle class that are doomed. It is the next and next generation of our children that fear “Doomnation”
Doomed is the notion that the U.S. is the world’s only super-power, can you say China. China the country that holds the note on our nations mortgage! The doom that this nation faces, goes far beyond the democratic party! Doom is the child of, bad policy, greed, errogance and the lack of fore-sigtht.

How wonderful to find someone willing to cut through the BS, and call out David Brooks for minus zero of a pretend man he is. Brooks is so fascinatingly vacuous one reads his column for the sheer sense of outrage. At the conclusion of each of his articles I have come to enjoy saying, “what an ass.”

If you’re going to shorten “Markos Moulitsas y Zúniga”, delete the ‘Zuniga’ part. The man’s surname is ‘Moulitsas’.

Any chance you and the “War Nerd” could write a story together for RS?

Matt, thanks for writing the sharpest opinion pieces I’ve seen. Your latest, Maybe We Deserve to be Ripped Off by Bush’s Billionaires, is brilliants. Keep it up.