MoveOn Moves In With Pelosi

Submitted by John Stauber on

Farhad Manjoo of Salon.com examines MoveOn's new role as power-broker for the Democratic Party. "MoveOn, which began with an e-mail petition opposing President Clinton's impeachment in 1998, has grown into one of the biggest and best-known netroots groups on the left. ... Now, however, with the Democrats running the House and Senate, MoveOn's stance on the Pelosi bill has led critics to suggest complicity with the new congressional power structure. ... MoveOn has long been part of Win Without War, a large collection of progressive antiwar groups; now it is virtually alone among the coalition's membership in its support for the Pelosi plan."

Main Source: 
Salon.com, March 23, 2007
Topics: 
Activism
Internet
Iraq
U.S. Congress

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John Stauber replied on

In our Moveon poll, 96% of you said "Moveon should truthfully explain why
it undermined the Barbara Lee Amendment for a fully-funded withdrawal from
Iraq."

Farhad Manjoo of Salon.com got a shocking answer from Moveon's Eli Pariser
- even though they knew Moveon's members would support it, they refused to
promote it!

Much more here...

http://www.democrats.com/moveon-explanation-1

Bob Fertik, Democrats.com

Mutternich replied on

The fight to end the war moves to the Senate this week. Senators are debating a plan that takes the Iraq Study Group's recommendations and sets a date to begin redeployment. The Senate could vote on it as soon as tomorrow.

It is urgent that the Senate plan contains a timeline for withdrawal and Republicans are going to try to strip those deadlines out. Sen. Sununu's votecould determine the outcome....

Why just march when you can CHAAAARRRGE!!! Call your senator and say you want funding for the war cut off, the money in the pipeline used to bring the troops home, and hands off Iran! Oh, and impeachment would be nice, too. MoveOn even gave me Sen. Sununu's phone number. :-)