TNR Complains About Dems Lying In The Bed TNR Made

I like New Republic writer Michael Crowley - he's one of the good ones at an increasingly dreadful (and irrelevant, in terms of circulation) magazine. However, Crowley really laid a doozy this morning over at Talking Points Memo.

Crowley decries the fact that Democrats are divided on, among other things, the Iraq War. Yet, it was his publication, the New Republic, which is in part responsible for that divide. After all, it was the New Republic which backed the Iraq War, and whose highest-profile figure - editor Peter Beinart - was out on TV vehemently attacking the majority of the party who opposed the war. For just some taste of how the New Republic has tried to sow divisions in the party, sSee my earlier posts here and here - or, better yet, just read Eric Alterman's writeup.

Now, it is true - I have done my share of criticism of Democrats - but my criticism is generally targeted at those few who are undermining the party's consensus position. That is, I go after those few turncoat politicians who undermine the rest of what is basically a pretty unified party. The New Republic (and the DLC) does exactly the opposite - they trumpet the turncoat and the undermining position.

Now, hilariously, the New Republic seems to be the decrying the division it helped exacerbate. Are they that divorced from reality that they can't even see how ridiculous they look?

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