Which we commented on in the thread below.

Andrew Sullivan prints an e-mail on the DLC from a Democrat:

DEMOCRAT WORRIES: Lots of positive press from the DLC meeting for the Dems, especially Hillary, but this Democratic state rep from New Hampshire, Peter Sullivan, begs to differ. Here's his email:



"Regarding Robert Borosage's spin on the Democratic Leadership Council's gathering in New York...we tried his approach. It was called the Mondale campaign. We all recall what a smashing success that exercise in squishy isolationism, neanderthal economics and racial resentment politics played out. I attended the DLC event, and I noticed that a lot of people evidently took Borosage's advice to go to the banquets, meet the money, eat the food, etc, but blow off the underlying message.

The DLC made the mistake of offering any Democratic legislator in America asistance with either hotel or travel expenses. A lot of people who took them up on the offer were actually the very paleolibs the DLC (and we New Dem legislators) are trying to subdue. The delegation from my own home state of New Hampshire was riddled with an assortment of old school lefties, party hacks and educrats who view charter schools as the political equivalent of the West Nile Virus. There was also a large and annoying contingent of teachers-turned-politicians, who seemed to take a certain glee in badgering the moderators of the education policy workshops run by the DLC in New York on Sunday and Monday. I also suspect that these are the same folks responsible for the glowing reviews bestowed upon Hillary Clinton following her rather unremarkable address. I hope that Borosage's admonition falls on deaf ears. Otherwise, the Democrats will all too readily cede the political battlefield to a substantively vacuous but politically ruthless Bush machine."



For sure, nothing attracts a left-wing liberal like the idea of someone else paying for something. ;)

BTW, don't miss Sullivan's interchange with Camille Paglia. I'm a big fan of both.