CTSA boo-hoos about losing influence and worries about giving a "false impression to outsiders" regarding their long-standing dissent and endorsement of the usual liberal idiocy.
The truth of the matter is that they're whining about the fact that people see right through them.
Pick up a steaming hot plate of the details over at Gerald's Cafeteria: http://closedcafeteria.blogspot.com/2007/06/ctsa-feeling-heat.html