Please E-mail the DLC.

As a lifelong Democrat it saddens me greatly when I read rhetoric from the DLC that labels liberals as "extreme" or specific positions on issues as "extreme". It also makes me very, very angry. This kind of rhetoric is divisive, inflammatory, and damaging to the party as a whole.

Who the hell does the DLC think they are to label people of their own party as extreme?

It's not extreme to oppose an immoral and illegal preemptive war. It's not extreme to want healthcare for everybody. It's not extreme to oppose a party which is morally and economically driving this country off a cliff. It's not extreme to want accountability for an administration which has casually disregarded the rule of law, to say nothing of common decency. It's not extreme to want to keep jobs in this country.

Liberals and the DLC disagree on several issues. But we also agree on many more issues. We are all Democrats. DLC members have the right to put their issues on the table just like every other Democrat. But the DLC does not have the right to hurt the party.

I am asking the DLC to officially and publically apologize for their divisive and counter-productive rhetoric. I am asking the DLC to put the swords away and become good Democrats.

Finally, I support Dr. Dean even when he says things with which I do not agree. I might shoot him an e-mail informing him of this, but I do not air my disagreements with Dr. Dean on the national news.

I want Democrats to win in 2006 and 2008. I will support liberal candidates in the primaries. I will support any Democrat who wins the nomination, even if I disagree with him or her on some issues. That's called party loyalty, an attribute sadly lacking in the DLC recently.

The Democratic Party has room enough for the DLC, and for anybody else who believes in an open and honest government held accountable not to a president, not to a party, and certainly not to a minority faction, but to the people. I expect the DLC to act like good citizens of that party and not like arrogant thugs. Save the rhetoric for the real extremists, the neocon Republicans.


Very sincerely,