Checkin' in with that other grass-roots movement

However, Jane Hamsher let slip who is really behind Common Purpose, calling it “one of the many groups Rahm Emanuel has set up to coordinate messaging among liberal interest groups”:

There are a variety of vehicles through which this is done — the 8:45 am call, Unity 09, Campaign to Rebuild and Renew America — and they’ve been extremely successful. When the banks told the White House they wouldn’t cooperate with the PPIP plan unless they got their bonuses, and the administration made the decision to “ratchet down their rhetoric,” the call went out to the liberal interest groups to stay silent too…and silent they remain.
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There’s a big problem right now with the traditional liberal interest groups sitting on the sidelines around major issues because they don’t want to buck the White House for fear of getting cut out of the dialogue, or having their funding slashed. Someone picks up a phone, calls a big donor, and the next thing you know…the money is gone. It’s already happened. Because that’s the way Rahm plays.

Link here to Accuracy in Media which provides several other links that details the cozy little network of journalists, bloggers, liberal advocacy groups and the White House.

Hey - and here’s the same Jane Hamsher of the liberal blog Firedoglake at one of the anti-anti-tea party protests in D.C. over the weekend that we commented on.



Do children dragged their by their parents qualify for the crowd count?

Something’s not printing out – either this network ain’t what it’s cracked up to be or they're just really bad at organizing things. Or maybe it’s just the onset of ideas-that-stink fatigue? After pouring your heart and soul into getting your guy elected, it may be tough for even the most deluded to get up any fight for supporting crushing debt and skyrocketing inflation for years to come. Yaay, generational theft!

Yep, we’re going with door #3.

Anyway, go here for brilliance from the ‘Hawk starring our girl Jane.

H/T: Hot Air