Bloggers and unions form group to push Democrats to the left

[BlueStateSaint]

Courtesy of Drudge . . .

Bloggers and unions form group to push Democrats to the left

By Jim Rutenberg      Published: February 26, 2009

WASHINGTON: A group of liberal bloggers said it is teaming up with organized labor and MoveOn to form a political action committee that will seek to push the Democratic Party farther to the left.

Soliciting donations from their readers, the bloggers said they are planning to recruit liberal candidates for challenges against more centrist Democrats currently in Congress.

The formation of the group marks another step in the evolution of the blogosphere, which has proved effective at motivating party activists to give money and time to political campaigns, especially in local races.

But it also illuminates a deepening wrinkle for President Barack Obama, whose attempt to build a broad governing coalition — often by tempering some of his more liberal previous positions — has already angered some of his supporters on the left.

The new organization is in many ways the liberal equivalent of the Club for Growth, a conservative group that has financed primary challenges against Republicans it deems insufficiently dedicated to tax cuts and small government.

Further on in the piece, one finds that the group is to be called "Accountability Now."

Link at:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/26/america/27webliberals.php

The storm clouds are gathering.  It will not be pretty.

[JohnnyReb]

Hope they go so far left that Obama ships 'em all to China.....where they'll be happy.

[docstew]

Hope they go so far left that Obama ships 'em all to China.....where they'll be happy.

why should we let them go where the jobs will be?  they won't know what to do with em

[JohnnyReb]

why should we let them go where the jobs will be?  they won't know what to do with em

They wouldn't work in a pie factory, you know that. So, if they're sucking the Chinese gummint "tit", we won't need that many jobs.