Between The Rocks And The Hard Places

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Now that the Democrats have some marginal power in Washington DC, their fringe-kook supporters are beginning to turn on them.

Code Pink, a fringe kook group if their ever was one, is now trying to “Pin the war on the Donkey.” Four members of the kook group managed to get themselves arrested outside of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) Office in Washington DC.

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Code Pink members were crying outside Pelosi’s office. When asked why, Rae Abileah, 24, said she was crying out of “outrage that this is all we can get from the Democrats,” referring to the Iraq supplemental funding bill, scheduled for a vote Friday.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/anti-war-protesters-arrested-at-pelosis-office-2007-03-22.html

This kind of behavior should not be surprising to you. The fringe kooks of the extreme left are going to bring even more pressure to bear on their Democrat representatives because the Democrats are the ones in power. More importantly to the fringe-kooks, the Democrats care more about them than do the Republicans.

For the Democrats, the kook fringe represents votes that can be lost. It is not that the Democrats have any fears that their kook fringe base will vote for Republicans instead of Democrats, but rather that the kook fringe will just not vote for them in upcoming elections. The kook fringe can never be really satisfied, and in that, they are a danger to the Democrats, potentially pulling them so far to the kook fringe left that the political middle may abandon them.

Democrats now find them selves between the rocks and the hard places.

Waste no pity on them.