Crazy Bloggers - Not dead yet!

Steve Soto has an interesting take on the NSA scandal and the netroots of the Democratic party, and he is basically accepting defeat on this issue:

There has been a lot of gnashing of teeth in the center-left blogosphere of late about the perceived timidity of Beltway Democrats in taking principled stands against Bush and the GOP in another election year. But this has been accompanied recently by a sustained attack from the corporate media and now the right wing blogs and punditocracy against the center-left blogs, by branding us as angry extremists that the Democratic Party needs to stay away from. There is a method to the GOP’s madness here, in that the GOP is trying to marginalize the center-left blogosphere and separate the power of the netroots from the usual crew of risk adverse Beltway Democrats, and it is working……

Digby’s point was that the reason why voters haven’t thrown more support to Democrats is because of precisely a situation like this: voters have no idea what the hell the party stands for anymore, and would rather see us take a stand on a clear cut issue of constitutional liberties and executive branch oversight and lose, than roll over and say “me too, Mr. President” once again. Digby of course is correct, and this mirrors what we have been saying for several years here as well. But even though Digby is correct, we are deluding ourselves that any of this will happen anytime soon.

He concludes: “Let it go. Waging war on our own Senators and representatives between now and November is just what the GOP wants.”

Sorry, but this issue is too important to let it go. We need to pursue this issue, but do it without waging war on our own representatives. It isn’t a either or choice here.

Capitulation is what the GOP wants, and I’m not ready to oblige.