Democrats and ALEC

In the well duh category, the Huffington Post recently posted an article entitled Democrats Create An ALEC-Killer.



Gee, often I have heard the cries about these dark, underhanded, suspicious tactics of this group.



And what are these tactics, why  the Republicans have organized a right-wing group to push for its policies at the state level, providing political discipline, they create draft statutes, coordinate activities,  and support people who agree with them across the spectrum.  And all this has worked for them very well over the last decade.



You know, this is called activism.  I once tried to point this out at a MoveOn meeting I was stupid enough to attend.  The reception to that comment wasn't good.



Sure it's financed by the right's most fanatical and finanically interested participants, and you expected diffierent?



At last someone said, Hey they are killing us by being organized and forceful.  Maybe we should do something too.



Someday, what passed for the American left will actually realize that the game is called politics, and it involves getting things done.