Robert Parry: "Feingold, Kerry and the Strategists"

[flpoljunkie]

http://smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=25259&mode=nested&order=0

The "Democratic strategists" thus set up the story's kicker line. House Majority Leader John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, called Feingold's resolution "political grandstanding of the very worst kind."

The construction of Babington's story also underscores the difficulty that any Democrat faces in trying to take principled stands against Republicans.

The Washington Post and other mainstream news outlets will invariably apply a negative spin suggesting some ulterior motive; the Republicans will counter-attack aggressively; and "Democratic strategists" will deliver a sucker punch from behind.

Similar muggings hit John Kerry when he tried to investigate the contra-cocaine scandal in the 1980s; battered Al Gore in 2002 when he questioned Bush's rush to war in Iraq; demeaned Rep. John Conyers's hearing on the Downing Street Memo in 2005; and now confront Feingold for daring to seek even a mild form of accountability against Bush.

The lesson for Democrats who want to stand and fight is that they must respond to this three-sided problem with a three-pronged solution: challenging Republican wrongdoing without fear or equivocation; building media outlets that will circumvent the smug mainstream press; and standing behind the rare Democratic politician who shows some courage.

[blm]

1. Building media outlets takes decades. How about EXPOSE the GOPcontrol of

media now? Left media could SWARM them with articles and columns as a concerted effort - the Rightwing would do it .

[flpoljunkie]

3. Is there really any "left media" other than on the internet these days?

Certainly not in the mainstream media.

[Oversea Visitor]

2. No Feingold resolution

Will show who is for the people and who is for self interest.
The failure to control the president on wrong doing is the failure of the elected representative.
Without such control then you fate rest with the president action.

As some repuke has reliase are they in a hole with the president without a ladder.
Look at the president and then ask which direction he is digging.

[blm]

5. This is why I strongly support the LEGAL REMEDY of impeachment.

Censure is fine, but I will not accept it as an alternative to impeachment.

[IndyOp]

4. Robert Parry is *always* excellent! (n/t)

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