Ouchie ouchie ouch. Kinda reinforces the idea that they’ve become Republican light. Don’t really think this is the reaction that the DCCC was looking for. Added- For those of you who don’t know who Anderson is, the clip above is from 2007 where he talks about impeaching Bush, not Obama.

Political junkies have speculated for months that former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson might run for Congress in 2012 — especially if someone slipped a hallucinogenic drug into the chocolate malts of legislative leaders and they created a liberal Salt Lake City-dominated district this gerrymandering session.

Forget about it.

Even if Anderson wanted to run for Congress — and he says he doesn’t — it’s unlikely the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee would give him any money. Especially after the scathing note he sent to the committee this week.

Anderson, the most liberal Utah elected official in memory, told national Democratic leaders he doesn’t want to be a Democrat anymore.

“Until the Democratic Party shows some spine and draws a line in the sand — that an end to the tax breaks for the wealthy needs to be part of any debt/budget bill — please take my name off your list,” Anderson wrote to the DCCC. It was a response to the committee’s form letter to him, asking for money to help the Democrats “stand strong” for the election year in 2012.

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“How dare you send an email with the subject line ‘Standing strong,’ ” he added. “You didn’t do it on Iraq, you didn’t do it on torture, you didn’t do it on signing statements, you haven’t done it on Afghanistan, you haven’t done it on defense spending, you haven’t done it on real health care reform, you haven’t done it on energy policy and the climate crisis, you haven’t done it on the evisceration of our system of checks and balances through the invocation of the state secrets doctrine, and you haven’t done it on the debt ceiling fiasco. Those who have stood strong in Congress can be counted on one hand — and they have faced nothing but opposition by Nancy Pelosi and most of the rest of the so-called Democrats.”

So here is Utah’s liberal icon slamming the Democrats for their timidity while praising a conservative Republican hero.