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• Wednesday, January 7, 2009 10:02 AM

  OT Another publication paying attention to you Glenn

  The Coming Rift, Commentary Magazine, Abe Greenwald (see sig)

  […]

  Since November’s supposed referendum on Republican ideology, a string of Democratic figures has been sullied by impropriety and entitlement while other members of the party are making an airtight case for the timeliness and resiliency of conservatism. On matters of foreign policy, social policy, and economics, Democratic leadership is largely indistinguishable from the Republican variety. And Democratic voters have noticed. On Saturday, Glen Greenwald complained in the Chicago Sun Times

  It's not at all surprising that Republican leaders -- from Dick Cheney and John Bolton to virtually all appendages of the right-wing noise machine -- are unquestioning supporters of the Israeli attack. After all, they're expressing the core ideology of the overwhelming majority of their voters and audience.

  Much more notable is the fact that Democratic leaders -- including Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi -- are just as lock step in their blind, uncritical support for the Israeli attack, in their absolute refusal to utter a word of criticism of, or even reservations about, Israeli actions.

  Did Greenwald (no relation, by the way) expect a stirring defense of a terrorist organization? Maybe, maybe not, but the important thing is that whatever Reid or Pelosi said (or failed to say) about the Gaza operation, it was troubling to most of those who voted for them. Greenwald noted that “Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose the Israeli offensive -- by a 24-point margin,” and went on to write, “is there any other position, besides Israel, where a party's voters overwhelmingly embrace one position (Israel should not have attacked Gaza) but that party's leadership unanimously embraces the exact opposite position (Israel was absolutely right to attack Gaza and the U.S. must support Israel unequivocally)?”

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  http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-coming-rift-14270

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