Is the Democrat party eating it's own?


"Not liberal enough" has become the rallying cry
Some are trying to shift the Democrat Party more to the left. That means cutting out Democrat incumbents.

Mr. Rush is a former Black Panther and recognized as one of the most liberal members of Congress yet he and Mr. Wynn were both attacked by their opponents for supporting the energy bill, a choice both men said they made after they successfully worked out a deal in committee to increase federal low-income home energy assistance program (LIHEAP) by $3 billion.
    
"My general view is that the Democratic Party used to be the big tent party where everyone is allowed to express their views; now it is being taken over by these bloggers and purists who can only see one way of thinking," Mr. Wynn said. "We can think for ourselves and not for somebody else's idea of what a liberal is supposed to be."
    
Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus, such as the group's chairman Rep. Melvin Watt of North Carolina, will face black Republicans in November, but the most serious challengers have been fellow party members using this new strategy of tagging their opponents as "conservative sympathizers."
    
"The policy frame of reference has changed," said Ronald Walters, professor of political science at the University of Maryland. The party "has shifted to the left." While he said he doubts black candidates will lose an election due to this shift, "they will get a lot of questions about it."
    
Notions that Mr. Rush is a Republican ally were laughable to Black Caucus members, but support for anything perceived to be Republican-led is being used this year by some to target Democrats as enemies of the party.

There is a lot of behind the scenes maneuvering in the Democrat Party right now, and it is not coming from the "official" leadership. While I don't buy entirely into David Horowitz's bit about a Shadow Party controlled by George Soros, I have to wonder who is giving the marching orders.

"Follow the money." Only thanks to campaign finance reform, we can't.

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