In which case, you would be surprised and disappointed if instead the group turned out to be a stick with which to beat the new Democratic Administration for its craven appeasement of evil.
Obama's deal to continue the Bush tax cuts, his surrender of a public option on health care, his refusal to call the Republicans' bluff on the debt ceiling rather than swallow budget cuts — these and other compromises amount, in the eyes of the Democratic left, to crimes of appeasement.
The White House forced a congressional vote on a war resolution one month before the 2002 midterm elections, in an atmosphere of partisan invective; Republicans on the floor of the House and Senate accused their dissenting Democratic colleagues of Chamberlain-like appeasement of Saddam.
Congressman Alan Grayson reproved Democratic leaders for their inclination toward appeasement, teasing them for "dwelling on the question, the unbelievably consuming question, of how to get Olympia Snowe to vote for health care reform".
Now, Democratic legislators found themselves vulnerable to charges of appeasement to their southern wing if they capitulated to Tyler's slavery expansion provisions.
If Bush and McCain want to assert that an American president negotiating with America's adversaries and enemies is appeasement, than virtually every American president--both Republican and Democratic--since the Second World War is an appeaser.
From her student years to her tenure as the first woman to serve as United States secretary of state, Dr. Albright's otherwise straightforward Democratic liberalism has been marked by anti-Communism and impatience of anything that smacked of "appeasement".
Many of today's loathed concepts like "minority appeasement" have in fact played a role in maintaining social cohesiveness under the democratic umbrella.
Their democratic hopes ended in 1939, when a compromised Czech government, stripped naked by British and French appeasement, struck a devil's pact with Hitler.
("Appeasement" and "Chamberlain" are two of conservatives' favorite buzzwords whenever a diplomatic breakthroughs by Democratic presidents may be afoot, even if they don't actually know what they mean).
