Astonishing, and tone deaf, as it may seem, Markos Zuniga said insufficiently progressive Democrats should be “cleansed” from the Party at the YearlyKos Convention. What a strange man.
PJM is covering the convention, if you haven’t noticed. (This is the fun part of my job, setting up things like that.)
UPDATE: Apparently our reporter misquoted or misheard Kos who did not use the “cleanse ” word, but said “cleaning out the Democratic Party,” meaning Lieberman. We corrected at PJ.
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1. LarryD:Oh yes, please do, Kos. A purge of the Democratic party by the Kossaks might finally create an honorable Opposition Party for the Republicans. And it would marginalize the “progressives”.
Alternately, the attempt at a purge might finally force the adults left in the Democratic Party to take their party back.
The only people either scenario wouldn’t be good for, are the “progressives” themselves.
Aug 3, 2007 - 9:01 am 2. Jamie Irons:Can re-education camps be far off?
Here we see one of the reasons why the left never finds all that much to carp about when it comes the “third world” nations like Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and Iran…
Jamie Irons
Aug 3, 2007 - 9:10 am 3. Lem:If there is anything that needs cleansing is his site.
Aug 3, 2007 - 9:18 am 4. Buddy Larsen:Well, Vlad the Impaler solved Transylvania’s unemployment problem by putting on a giant feast for the poor, after which he killed them all.
Aug 3, 2007 - 10:44 am 5. Terry Baker:…”insufficiently progressive Democrats should be “cleansed” from the Party”….
Socialism’s last stand?
Is it possible that the true goal here is to reverse history’s verdict of the cold war?
If so, is it possible? Can the “progressive” left really make a big, lasting comeback?
I don’t know the answer. Does anyone?
Aug 3, 2007 - 11:07 am 6. Greenie:It would be interesting — tone deaf is an apt description — if Zuniga had used the word “cleansed.” But of course he never did. Rick Moran, your PM “reporter,” simply made it up.
Keep up the good work.
Aug 3, 2007 - 12:40 pm 7. Buddy Larsen:Anyone got the actual quote?
Aug 3, 2007 - 12:53 pm 8. Anthony (Los Angeles):Ooohh! Maybe Kos will hold show trials, too, which will include ritual denunciations of Right-deviationist “wreckers” like Lieberman.
Aug 3, 2007 - 1:25 pm 9. Buddy Larsen:Okay, not “cleanse”. Does “purge” sound better? Them synonyms is stubborn things.
Aug 3, 2007 - 3:00 pm 10. Jeffersonian:And after the Menscheviks and Zenovievites…
Aug 3, 2007 - 3:39 pm