I have not said much about the whole Nevada Democrats Debate/Fox News Scuffle, but this peice in Politico.com makes me wonder about the decision making process in the Democratic party.
As an isolated incident, this debate issue is of relatively little importance. But taken as one in a string of decisions by the Democratic leadership, one has to wonder about the decision making process employed by Sen. Reid, Speaker Pelosi and other Democratic leaders. Decision making by principle seems to have been tossed aside like yesterday's newspaper. I know that the Netroots is a big deal in the Democratic party, although I fail to see why, since their track record is pretty abyssmal. But if it is this small group of liberal bloggers running the show, why then are those people not sitting in Washington. Reid, et al, need to lay down the law a little and let their base know that sometimes the proper decision to make is not one that the Netroots will agree with, but that leaders sometimes have to make tough decision.
Backing out of the debate on Fox is just a bad move--it makes the Democrats look weak and as though they are the puppets of too small a section of the party.
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