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In keeping with Harry Reid in Washington, 8 people from MoveOn.org are protesting tonight in Rapid City. MoveOn.orgDemocraticParty are now one.
Does MoveOn.org Run the U.S. Senate?
Democrat Senators Take a Break From All-Night Iraq Debate to Hold Rally With MoveOn Activists
Even while refusing to say whether Iraqis would be safer if the United States withdrew from Iraq, Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid took time today to join MoveOn at a rally calling for an immediate withdrawal.
Senate Democrats' blind allegiance to MoveOn is well-documented. MoveOn.Org's man in Washington . . . [T]om Matzzie noted how senior Democratic senators eagerly rearrange their schedules to meet with MoveOn [Adam C. Smith, "Unshaven, Unbowed And In Our Face," St. Petersburg Times, 2/18/05].
Not only are Democrats rearranging their schedules to meet with MoveOn; they are also getting their foreign policy agenda from the far left organization. In January Republicans and Democrats in the Senate joined to unanimously confirm General Petraeus. Today, despite that approval, Democrats are calling for an end to the Petraeus counteroffensive before it has been fully implemented. The Democrat stance reflects MoveOn's growing opposition to any U.S. presence in Iraq, despite early signs that the counteroffensive is making progress battling al Qaeda in that country.
Even when MoveOn ran web advertisements comparing President Bush to Hitler and opposed anti-terrorism military operations in Afghanistan, Democrats did not cut ties with the group. Just this week, Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer mimicked MoveOn's passive approach to anti-terrorism efforts when he ignored the seriousness of the al Qaeda presence in Iraq and said that the U.S. would leave a "small number of troops (in Iraq) who deal particularly with counterterrorism, but they would be well out of harm's way, won't be in a day-to-day fight approximating a totally different type of effort" [Fox News, 7/16/07].
The all-night debate demanded by Senator Reid is meant to show MoveOn that Senate Democrats are staying loyal to the far left, even if they ignore questions about the repercussions for Iraqi and U.S. national security.
They might not win a war with this strategy, but they hope to win back the far left.
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