Uh, vas nu?

Excuse my Yiddish but after that wasp problem, I've had the windows closed and it's like a sauna in here!

Anyway, don't expect this to play well during 2008.

.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., announced today that he and his wife, Mary, are getting divorced.

In a joint statement issued by Feingold's office, the couple said they have "decided to end their marriage."

They added, "We are separating amicably and intend to remain very good friends."

Feingold has two daughters from a previous marriage. Mary Feingold also has two sons by a previous marriage.

Sorry to hear this but I can vision the advertisements right now.

The Third Avenue comes clean and hopefully some others will too! This gets interesting.

So the database hadn't been updated, big deal, I forgot to get rid of people after November and these politicans don't exactly call the DLC to tell us they would like their name removed. While they admit "many of these names are people who have left office or where defeated" they claim that these people haven't been replaced and thus the movement is losing its influence.

John Y. Brown III used to be listed on there, I haven't seen the list lately but he didn't run for anything in 2007 after serving two terms as Secretary of State.

So let's go to the meat: Gavin Newsom. During the run up to his campaign for mayor, the campaign manager told me that they had to tread carefully with us because San Francisco Democrats hate the DLC and, as liberal as Gavin was nationally, he was the conservative in this race. I wrote an article about his "Care not Cash" campaign for Blueprint (the DLC's magazine) and made him New Dem of the Week once too.

Sen. Feinstein is a DLC affiliated Democrat as well and I know via Bill Earl of Blogging for Bayh has experienced the DLC hatred as liberal as he is.

To be honest, politicians use the DLC like the DLC uses them. They want the DLC for the contacts, fundraising, and yes good policy ideas. The DLC wants them to show they are still important post-Clinton and claim that they have their finger in rising stars and can tell the DC establishment who will be the next Governor, Mayor, Senator, or Congress[wo]man. Some politicians use the DLC and then throw them away when the heat from liberal groups like MoveOn gets to big.

And for another thing Bob and Kos have criticized the DLC for wanting to "purge" groups like MoveOn "from the party's ranks." Yet in the same breath, they can wait to pump the flames of the blogosphere's/their attempt to purge the DLC from the Democratic Party. There's that old saying about pointing figures, so I won't repeat it. I just want them to stop patting themselves on the backs long enough to realize how pathetic their "victory" was.

Yes, the kos folks like to flame those Democrats who affiliate with the DLC and those kos folks don't like it when the opposite happens. I smell hypocracy don't I. See the rest of his post for more.

Greg gives his two cents as well.