More on the Democratic Leadership Council

While Hillary Clinton was calling for:

a cease-fire among warring factions of the Democratic Party, arguing that a united front is needed to reverse the party's recent electoral defeats and halt the advance of conservative Republican ideology.

The DLC's Will Marshall and Peter Ross Range were busy firing shots at the "liberal" Democrats. The Republicans are beside themselves.

Will Marshall basically said that liberals are unpatriotic and Peter Ross Range said the following:

All these freedoms are clearly bad stuff in the jihadists' playbook, so they used their own freedom to try to take away that of others.

Nobody said it better than London Mayor Ken ("Red Ken") Livingstone, a leading leftist. Though openly critical of Tony Blair for his support of the war in Iraq, Livingstone was eloquent and unequivocal about the terrorists. Pointing out that London had been chosen for the 2012 Olympic Games partly because 300 languages are spoken in his city, Livingstone said the jihadists' "cowardly attack" was aimed not "against the mighty or the powerful, it was aimed at ordinary working-class Londoners. Black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindus and Jews, young and old. It was an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, class, religion whatever."

If only we could hear such moral clarity from our own party's left! Instead, we heard from Daily Kos, the ur-liberal ur-blogger, whose blog included a cheer for, among others, outcast Labourite George Galloway, who blamed the attacks on Blair's Iraq policy -- and was roundly denounced by virtually all British politicians. "See, Democrats? That's how it's done," lectured the blogger ignorantly. Likewise, Matt Yglesias, an articulate liberal voice at The American Prospect, who belittled Marshall Wittmann's call for moral clarity as a phrase never used "unironically" anymore. No wonder Democrats are perceived to have a values problem.

This is something I would expect to hear from the Republicans and Bush cultists.

It's time to let the DLC know that they don't represent Democrats. That goes for you too Hillary.

Update
Atrios has more atrocities. The DLC is saying the Democtats must turn into Republicans to beat them.

I have some additional ranting over at Running Scared.