OK, I know the diary police will probably spank me, but considering that Markos and this site are the subject of this editorial in today's Sunday New York Times (and that I'm dumb enough to pay good money to read it) I'm claiming the right of fair use to post the article for the community to read.
Bloggers at the Gates: What Was Good for EBay Should Be Good for Politics
By ADAM COHEN
Published: March 12, 2006
After the disastrous 2004 election, prominent Democrats gathered in Monterey, Calif., to discuss what to do next. The organizers scheduled a session on coalition building, but each special interest complained that its issue was being slighted. In the end, the coalition-building session broke up into five separate groups, each focusing on its own issue.
Is that to say that the Democratic Party partitioned itself so as to avoid civil war? Does that make Kossaks the Pesh merga of the Democratic Party?