(The video clip is 56 seconds.)
This is not from the clip, it's just my favorite part of Markos' slapdown:
MR. MOULITAS: The problem we have, though, is we've, we've had a, a, an organization that, one, has, has been on the wrong side of a lot of ideas. We're talking John Breaux, Senator John Breaux, who's an architect of George Bush's tax cuts, which have led our nation to record deficits, record debt, and a crumbling infrastructure, as we've seen in Katrina and as we've seen in, in Minnesota. I mean, crazy thing, but the American people want their bridges to stay in one piece. So we, we have a situation like that. On Social Security...
REP. FORD: You can't blame the--Markos, I got great respect for you, but I'm not going to let you get away with blaming the Democratic Leadership Council or anything that we support, sir, for, for anything...
MR. MOULITSAS: Senator John Breaux, who was the chairman of the DLC...
REP. FORD: Right.
MR. MOULITSAS: ...was the chief architect. This is something you put...
REP. FORD: But not of crumbling--not of crumbling infrastructure.
MR. MOULITSAS: Well, what do you think, you're going to cut taxes and not pay for the priorities in our nation. I mean, obviously, there has to be a way to pay for these things. And to come out and say, "Well we're going to cut taxes, and we're going to let these deficits run up, and we're going to let our infrastructure crumble," clearly it's the wrong way to go. On health care, on the war in Iraq, which you still refuse to say is a big mistake.
REP. FORD: It's, it's...
MR. MOULITSAS: You, you were on just on Fox News. So, clearly, we have a situation where you have an organization that's been on the wrong side of the issues and has failed to really build a movement, has failed to really draw popular support...At YearlyKos, we had all these organizations at the same table--labor, the issue groups. The one organization that was still missing was the DLC. That's the one organization that refuses to acknowledge...(unintelligible)...with me.
See it all at Crooks and Liars.
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