Is This Fredricksburg or Gettysburg?

Both were Civil War battles, featured suicidal uphill charges against well defended positions, and both turned out badly for one making the charge.

There's lot of talk today about civil wars within the various parties. Well, within the Republican party, anyway. But according to this items, there's a bunch of lefties charging up a pretty well defended hill within the Democrat party:

MoveOn.org is sending out emails today seeking more contributions for its campaign to defeat any Democratic senator who does not fully support Obamacare. Yesterday the left-wing activist group asked members to contribute "to a primary challenge against any Democratic senator who helps Republicans block an up-or-down vote on health care reform." Today, MoveOn reports that it has received $2 million in pledges in less than 24 hours. "It's a clear sign of how angry progressives would be at any Democrat who helps filibuster reform," MoveOn executive director Justin Ruben writes in the new email.

"The larger the war chest we can offer a potential challenger, the stronger the signal we'll send to conservative Democrats," Ruben continues. "So we're setting a huge new goal: $3 million in total pledges by the end of the week. That's plenty to launch a serious primary challenge."

The difference between Gettysburg and this charge by MoveOn is the defenders are being attacked from both sides. If the GOP does well today there will be pressure on Senators to dump Obamacare to keep from having a voter revolt throw them out of office. If they do that, they get attacked from the left.

Now THAT's a civil war.