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The problem with Kos is that he practices a sort of Leninist Democratic Centralism: he wants to have the entre Democratic Party and the entire Democratis Caucus work like one man for a single goal. I don't understand why, for instance, John Conyers can't pursue as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee the same investigations he has spent 6 years doing from the minority, this time with the whole power of the committee to hold hearings, summon witnesses and subpoena testimony. That need not distract the rest of the congress and the rest of the democratic party, and the netroots, from other parts of the agenda. After all, an impeachment resolution is just like any other legislative initiative: it comes out of a House committee and is voted on the floor.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 7th, 2006 at 05:35:50 PM EST
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I understand, but don't have much deference for Kos' political opinion.  His dkos site is a potentially powerful tool for positive movement, and to Kos' credit divergent viewpoints are fine.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
by NearlyNormal on Thu Dec 7th, 2006 at 05:39:25 PM EST
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Kos is very talented as an organiser, but utterly clueless as a pundit. His predictive abilities have been spectacularly bad.

As long as people remember that, there's no problem. But there's a danger of people taking him seriously as a prognosticator and - worse - arbiter of policy just because dKos has been so successful. And he really isn't qualified for either of those roles.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Dec 7th, 2006 at 07:50:37 PM EST
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Conyers doesn't have to do a thing.

Rep. Waxman can investigate anything he wants, issue subpoenas whenever he want, and either he gets the info or the non-responder goes to jail (British: gaol.)

The rest ... as he said.

by ATinNM on Thu Dec 7th, 2006 at 09:02:08 PM EST
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