I wrote earlier this monring about how there is a split in the Democrat party. Tell me that this note from Hume doesn’t show us exactly that:
Virginia Democratic Congressman Jim Moran is getting slammed by fellow House Democrats over comments that pro-Israel forces in the U.S., “pushed the Iraq war from the beginning.”
The Politico newspaper reports Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman called Moran’s remarks “deeply offensive.”A group of 16 Jewish Democrats wrote what is described as a withering letter to Moran, saying in part, “The idea that the war in Iraq began because of the influence of Jewish Americans is factually incorrect and unfortunately fits the anti-Semitic stereotypes some have used historically against Jews.”
But Moran is not backing down. A spokesman conceded that the congressman’s comments may have been “unnecessarily harsh,” but said the criticism was directed at a lobbying organization, not a community of people.
Which ignores, of course, that there was a large body of people paying for that lobbying organization. People, who in large part, were Moran’s voters. My guess is, they won’t be, anymore.