MoveOn Moves In With Pelosi [1]
Submitted by John Stauber [2] on
Farhad Manjoo of Salon.com examines MoveOn [3]'s new role as power-broker for the Democratic Party. "MoveOn, which began with an e-mail petition opposing President Clinton [4]'s impeachment in 1998, has grown into one of the biggest and best-known netroots groups on the left. ... Now, however, with the Democrats [5] running the House [6] and Senate [7], MoveOn's stance on the Pelosi [8] bill has led critics to suggest complicity with the new congressional power structure. ... MoveOn has long been part of Win Without War [9], a large collection of progressive antiwar groups; now it is virtually alone among the coalition's membership in its support for the Pelosi plan."