Sorry, maybe my point wasn't clear. My concern is not that Bush is being criticized. Heck, if you go down a few posts I throw a pie in his face myself, and not for the first time.

My concern is what it usually is, that the slow progression of this nation towards socialism is stopped at least, and hopefully reversed. To accomplish this, the socialists have to be defeated in the Senate and elsewhere this fall.

My post was intended to show--yet again--the position of the mainstream media firmly on the Democratic side. It hasn't been shown blatantly for a while, due to the desire to appear "patriotic," but the gloves are now apparently off.

This bit from U.S. News shows more of the Democratic strategy:

Oops! The secret's out on plan to slam Bush, GOP



Top Democrats, liberal interest groups, and two CNN cohosts are quietly promoting a new network to thwart President Bush's agenda with orchestrated protests, critical stories planted in friendly media, and rapid-reaction teams. The job of the "Progressive Donor Network" is to fight the "right-wing infrastructure." The lefties held an inaugural meeting this month, featuring talks by House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, CNN Crossfire hosts and party operatives James Carville and Paul Begala, and former top Clinton-Gore aides. The war plan included a detailed call to develop strategies to fight Bush and win local elections. One technique displayed in splendor: how an associated group, American Family Voices, has ginned up Enron protests to disrupt White House events. It's the brainchild of Michael Lux, a former Clinton aide and progressive PR strategist. His goal: get Democrats to react "with more quickness and agility" to the GOP. Lux hoped to keep his handiwork secret, but "I always assume if I hand out anything to any group that it will be in a reporter's hands within . . . days."



Okay, this activity is certainly legitimate in a free country. However, a right-wing effort like this would be loudly denounced from all quarters as a "right-wing conspiracy." I'm not holding my breath waiting to see something in the news about a "left-wing conspiracy."

A little more background: The Progessive Donors Network currently has members-only access. However, Nick Jacobs, listed at the bottom, has an e-mail address located at the Progressive Strategies consulting firm, and you can browse their agenda to your heart's content. Jacobs is on the staff of Progressive Strategies, as well as Michael Lux. The other guy, Thomas Sheridan, is from the Sheridan Group, a lobbying organization that seems to be mostly concerned with AIDS and other health issues.

"American Family Voices" is listed as a Progressive Strategies client.

It's worth remembering that "progressive" is the current DBA of the organized socialist movement, which started calling itself "socialist" back when "communist" fell out of vogue.