DLC: With friends like these...

It's been nice to not hear anything from the DLC for a while. Their sole purpose is apparently to move the Democratic party to the right on every single issue. (Never mind that Republican approval ratings are in the toilet.)

Now they're following Lieberman's lead and offering the GOP a brand new set of talking points on a silver platter. And going about it in a pretty offensive way:

Marshall Wittmann, a former Republican political strategist now with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, said Pelosi may have resurrected her party's most deadly liability -- voters' lack of trust in the party on national security.

"If Karl Rove was writing the timing of this, he wouldn't have written it any differently, with the president of the United States expressing resolve and the Democratic leader offering surrender," Wittmann said, referring to Bush's top adviser. "For Republicans, this is manna from heaven."

David Sirota, a Democratic strategist in Montana long critical of the party leadership's timidity, fired back: "It is not surprising that a bunch of insulated elitists in the Washington establishment -- most of whom have never served in uniform -- would stab the Democratic Party in the back and attack the courage of people like Vietnam War hero Jack Murtha and Nancy Pelosi for their stand on Iraq."

What a douche. Surrender? He's got a lot of nerve accusing Murtha of being a chicken. The guy has closer ties to military brass than most people on Capitol Hill, and it isn't unreasonable to assume he has a better idea of how things are going in Iraq than some Republican strategist.

Props to the Center for American Progress' David Sirota, although he should go ahead and play rough rather than using Hill-style softie insults.