"anti-neoCon" includes neoCon Democrats

DeadElephant.ORG was launched a month before the '06 election for Congress and the Senate. Most of us on the Left assumed that the minority Democrats then in office were simply cowed by the Republican juggernaut, and that if we could win them a majority then circumstances would dramatically shift. Perhaps that was wishful thinking, but at the time it seemed obvious. And after election night our hopes were high.

Patriots who demand an end to this immoral war, an end to "faith-based" reasoning that trumps any commitment to honesty or facts, and an end to the buildup of a police state in "the homeland", have repeatedly been disappointed by the newly-empowered Democrats. The real attitude of "our" party was laid bare when half of them voted to censure MoveOn -- and worse has already happened even in the few weeks since that.

To the degree to which they operate as a "Republican-lite" party, our communal prayer for the Democrats is well-captured by the dead elephant symbol.