Of Course You Know, This Means War
Mickey Kaus had the greatest line on the Kos I have ever seen, and it bears repeating:
Kos is one of the few people on the planet with a personality so unappealing he allows Hillary to seem warm and enchanting!
Well, not only is the Berkeley Blowhard a grade-A jerk, he may very well be the most vindictive personality in the blogosphere. Kos has delusions of grandeur, and brooks no dissent (you run a successful website, okay? That’s it).
The latest sign of Kos’s sheer maniacal egotism, care of Little Green Footballs, is this:
…This is the modern DLC — an aider [sic] and abettor of Right-wing smear attacks against Democrats. They make the same arguments, use the same language, and revel in their attacks on those elements of the Democratic Party that seem to cause them no small embarrassment.Two more weeks, folks, before we take them on, head on.
No calls for a truce will be brooked. The DLC has used those pauses in the past to bide their time between offensives. Appeals to party unity will fall on deaf ears (it’s summer of a non-election year, the perfect time to sort out internal disagreements).
We need to make the DLC radioactive. And we will. With everyone’s help, we really can. Stay tuned.
In case you just missed it, Kos has openly declared war on the DLC (and by extension, on Hillary and a host of other (comparatively) responsible Democrats). The DLC, of course, is the somewhat centrist Democratic Leadership Council. If you look on their web page, at their most recent convention, the following luminaries spoke: Tom Vilsack, HRC, Evan Bayh, Al From, and Mark Warner.
Hillary is also on the Leadership Team, and among the members of the Senate New Democrat Coalition are Joe Lieberman and Bob Graham. Of course, famously, Bill Clinton was a creature of the DLC, the same Bill Clinton that was the only Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win the Presidency.
And the Kos has just declared war.
Let’s let that sink in for a minute.
On one side, Hillary Clinton, Al From, Joe Lieberman, Mark Warner, Evan Bayh, and Bob Graham – and on the other…ahem…Kos.
Somebody pinch me, I must be dreaming…Christmas came early this year.
UPDATE 1:15 p.m. central: Hey, Christmas really DID come early this year…thanks to the Instapundit for the link!…
UPDATE 2 2:36 p.m. central: More from Jayson at PoliPundit, who asks and answers:
Does the rational wing of the Democrat Party have the money, muscle and wherewithal to expunge the lunatic left?I seriously doubt it.
Well, I suspect 2008 may be the election cycle where we at least begin to find out…
UPDATE 3 4:07 p.m. central: Jonathan Chait – Isn’t this really James Bond Villain/Dr. Evil type stuff? From the insistence that he has a foolproof secret plan, to the macho predictions that the enemy will beg for mercy and be denied, right down to the metaphor (“make them radioactive”–Bwahahahahaha!).
UPDATE 4 08/25/05: Iowahawk has recovered Kos’s previous draft…
[...] Here’s an excerpt from a recent missive I received after making fun of our buddy Kos (note: I did not ask the author’s permission to print this, nor do I plan to, but I did set up my email to automatically delete any further correspondence from this misanthrope): I stumbled upon your site quite accidentally through a quality-content challenged site called instapundit.com and noticed that you had something called jackasses and was surprised not to see the individual who I consider to be the jackassh**e of the millennium: W. Shrub. How could your pathetic little intellectually challenged site commit such a glaring and thoughtless mistake? I take it the next time I stumble upon your lame excuse for a blog you will have corrected this monumental lapse in judgement. [...]
[...] It’s not a great surprise, then, to find the Kos speaking out of both sides of his gaping pie-hole. The infamous ’shot heard round the world’ is a mere 9 days away, yet Markos himself has prominent ties to the heretical DLC, or at least to one of its offshoots. Fundraising ties, of course. [...]