The corporate Third Way inside the Democratic Party:

[woo me with science]

When the DLC connections to the Koch Bros. became well known, they just rebranded the infiltration
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4165556

When you hear "Third Way", think INVESTMENT BANKERS
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024127432

GOP Donors and K Street Fuel Third Way’s Advice for the Democratic Party
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101680116

The Rightwing Koch Brothers fund the DLC
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x498414

Same companies behind the GOP are behind the DLC
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1481121

[d_b]

1. Quaaaid

[tecelote]

4. Both of these images make me think of Bush/Cheney

[woo me with science]

52. I had to recover.

That is just too perfect!

[rhett o rick]

8. I agree.

[sabrina 1]

21. Me too!

[JEB]

56. Me three.

[Scuba]

58. Me four.

[merrily]

9. +1 And, she's so damned smart, too! Nails the tactics. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

15. Woo Hoo,

Woo.

I always wanted to say that. Great post & thread.

[nationalize the fed]

22. +1

and the lists!

[SomethingFishy]

18. + whatever I got.

Loves me some Woo!!

[adirondacker]

27. Feelings are likewise and some of my favorite DUers have replied to this subthread.

I admire all of you for your tenacity for truth and justice and I'd Love to have a meetup at some point in time.

[zeemike]

30. Me too

[hifiguy]

31. To woo, one of DU's best and brightest

truth tellers, I can only add

[woo me with science]

37. Here's to every single DUer insisting that "2+2=4" and that democratic principles matter,

and refusing to let the corporate Third Way pervert what we are.

I love you.

[PowerToThePeople]

44. truth

[F4lconF16]

54. +1

One of my favorite posters, and definitely one of the smartest cookies on here.

[MannyGoldstein]

55. +1000

A brick wall of facts that the Third Way can't sneak through.

[Agony]

71. Yup!

thanks for being here!

Go woo_me_with_science!

Agony

[Enthusiast]

75. +1

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Obama is a Third Way "Democrat," yes?

[tecelote]

6. But, he was a social worker.

[merrily]

10. No, he was a community organizer. Also, worked with ACORN (with, not for) to get

voters registered.

But, as President, he signed the Bill that killed ACORN.

[NewDeal_Dem]

42. Ironic, that.

[rhett o rick]

53. Not ironic in my view. Obama used ACORN until he didn't need them and them cut them loose.

Not too different than what Hitler did with the Brown Shirts.

[Autumn]

61. Kinda like them "libruls" that many here have no use for.

Yep.

[Horse with no Name]

63. Love you.

Just saying...

[stillwaiting]

7. He's a self-described "New Democrat" that has much in common with "1980's Republicans".

He certainly seems to admire Reagan more than FDR (by his own words).

[merrily]

11. More than much in common.

"The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican."

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/obama-considered-moderate-republican-1980s/story?id=17973080

[YoungDemCA]

16. The vitriol directed at the President by members of his own party is disgusting

It's more befitting of the "backlash" of right-wingers who think Obama is the stealth leader of the New Black Panthers.

[liberal_at_heart]

17. Obama's support of a bill that cuts pensions and authorizes another 2008 financial collapse is

disgusting.

[silvershadow]

26. Word. nt

[paleotn]

32. Precisely .....

...brings to mind an old Who song......"meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

[woo me with science]

40. Amen.

2+2=4

[QC]

65. Amen! n/t

[merrily]

20. Try contradicting what I posted with facts and keep your "racially tinged" smears to yourself.

I posted factual info, not vitriol and nothing racist. Your implication is as disgusting as it is pulled straight out of your ear and utterly baseless.

My opposition is to Third Way political philosophy, whether it's Hillary and Bubba or Rahm or Daschle or Obama, the DLC or Third Way or No Labels or Center for American Progress. I treat them alike, as anyone who reads my posts and has the least bit of honesty can attest. If anything, I am harder on the Clintonites.

Being pro ACORN is racist now? LMAO. Your counterfeit race card is not going to silence me and I sure hope it doesn't silence anyone who opposes those with moderate 1980s Republican politics who run as Democrats.

Your post is shameful. You owe me a heartfelt apology, but I don't expect one, so I'll content myself with "Shame on your lying implication and on you for posting it."

[sabrina 1]

24. The resort to playing the race card is a Think Tank tactic, who pays for this stuff

I wonder, when there is no other defense for Third Way policies.

I ignore it mostly knowing where it came from.

You won't get an answer that uses facts from Think Tanks.

Their job is to try to demonize people who see through BS.

And they are becoming desperate as more and more people see it clearly.

[merrily]

25. Yep, except I think we all may have ignored it longer than we should have.

As I posted the other day, our folks were mistaken when they told us the way to make bully wannabes go away is to ignore them. It only emboldens them, whether it's the third grade bully wannabe or the DU equivalent. And calling them out for what they are doesn't cost me any more than ignoring them or reasoning with them. Shining a light on their turd blossom posts doesn't hurt me in the least.

Thank you for your comments, though.

PS: Hillary DID run a "racially tinged" campaign against Obama, but many of them will support her to the nth degree, further showing what utter bs their "racially tinged" smears are.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=389718

[sabrina 1]

57. I'd like to see an answer to your question 'being pro-Acorn is racist how'?

If ANYTHING was and still is, racist it was the decades long hatred for ACORN by the Far Right who began their attacks on ACORN the day the organization began.

I wonder if the poster knows anything at all about ACORN? Why they existed in the first place?

I'm sorry you had to deal with that. But glad to see these tactics completely exposed.

And THAT was a winner. Supporting ACORN is now racist?? You learn something new every day.

I remember when the Far Right Racists finally managed to destroy that wonderful organization with the help, SHAMEFULLY of far too many Democrats. The statement made by ACORN's director at the time, that she was so saddened that Democrats had betrayed them.

That was an act of cowardice beyond belief.

And they never apologized when all the court rulings proved that the Far Right lies were just that. It didn't matter, ACORN, who had signed up over one million people to vote, had become inconvenient, because of a despicable, racist felon hired by the far right and Dems didn't have the guts to stand up for them. I believe only 75 Dems voted against defunding ACORN. Shameful.

[woo me with science]

38. What an ugly post,

and what a textbook attempted smear for a Third Way response.

[NewDeal_Dem]

43. What? Only a total moran could actually believe that Obama's policies had any

relation to those of the Panthers.

The only commonality is skin color. They may as well brand Justice Thomas a Panther.

[Scuba]

59. The policies and appointments the President has pushed earned him the vitriol.

The right can claim he's a godless commie, but his actions prove him a Wall Street flunky.

[DeSwiss]

68. Some call it ''vitriol.''

- I call it TRUTH.

As Harry Truman once said: ''If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.''

[frylock]

73. a direct quote from the man is now to be considered vitriol..

fucking ell ohh ell.

[liberal_at_heart]

5. Great OP woo me with science.

[MissDeeds]

12. Great post woo me

You are one of the very best voices on DU. Always spot on!



K&R

[jtuck004]

13. Seems like it would be more accurate without the word "inside". n/t

[merrily]

14. DLC/Third Way/No Labels, etc. has, for all practical purposes, become the Party, as

far as candidates. There are no traditional or liberal think tanks. The PTB of the Party--those who choose candidates to run, decide who the Party and its donors back, etc. choose Third Wayers. Wasserman Schultz is head of the DNC--and she succeeded Kaine. (Gee, what successful midterms those two oversaw.) Yet, she has a full time job as a member of the House and, for his first year as DNC, Kaine had a full time job as Governor. What does that say?

I don't believe for five minutes that it's all about electability and only about electability. If that were so 2010 and2012 would have screamed "Drastic Change!" Instead, the message they claim to have taken away is, "Gee, we'd best go further right."


Anyway, it's the minnow that ate the whale, the tale that not only wagged the dog, but became the dog.

[woo me with science]

60. "I don't believe for five minutes that it's all about electability and only about electability."

IMO, that's one of the most transparent lies the Third Way tells.

Utterly absurd, given that they routinely win office by lying through campaigns pretending to be more liberal than they are.

They know full well that the country polls far to the left of them on actual issues. They are corporatists selling a product through whatever manipulation they can, not representatives trying to reflect the people's wishes.

Great post.

[99Forever]

19. Woo, my friend, you have a way with words.

And facts.

[Zorra]

23. OMG, that's exactly what the children of the republican party look like! K&R. nt

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

28. So it is Obama hate, now i get it

[DeSwiss]

69. Actually, you don't get it.

Reducing this down to ''hate'' proves you don't. A simplistic BS tactic like children do on the playground when they're losing their argument and are trying to save face.

- Nope, you don't get it at all. But you will one day.

[hueymahl]

29. I almost threw up in my mouth

Then literally laughed out loud! What a great post!

[zeemike]

33. For those who wonder what that creature is

(there is irony if you read it)

Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae. This parasite enters fish through the gills, and then attaches itself to the fish's tongue. The female attaches to the tongue and the male attaches on the gill arches beneath and behind the female. Females are 8–29 millimetres (0.3–1.1 in) long and 4–14 mm (0.16–0.55 in) in maximum width. Males are approximately 7.5–15 mm (0.3–0.6 in) long and 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) wide.[1] The parasite destroys the fish's tongue, and then attaches itself to the stub of what was once its tongue and becomes the fish's new tongue.[2]

It became the fish's new toung...

[Cali_Democrat]

36. Interesting!

[woo me with science]

39. "The parasite...attaches itself...and becomes the fish's new tongue."

Utter perfection. What a perfect symbol for these infiltrating, parasitic corporatists in Democrat costumes, lecturing that War is Peace and those breaking bones and sodomizing minors (or anyone) for the government of the United States are patriots.



"Family Cymothoidae"

[zeemike]

46. Did you chose that picture for that reason?

Or was it subliminal?
But it sure as hell fit.

[woo me with science]

48. I had no idea it only and always replaced the tongue.

I thought it was just a really creepy, grinning parasite.

The verbatim description you posted is just perfection.

[ancianita]

51. Holy shit, THAT was hella fascinating. And horribly true about this party. Gaaaaaaaaghhhh

[hifiguy]

76. Creepy, grinning parasites.

The Turd Way in three words.

[BeanMusical]

41. Well said.

[MisterP]

50. well, that ain't right then--they're still being functional, serving a purpose!

[paleotn]

34. That's damn right. [phone] (nt)

[truebluegreen]

35. Icky picture*, btw, but Third Way is ickier.

*although I voted to Leave It... Excellent post, thanks.

[DeSwiss]

70. You mean somebody tried to have the thread axed?!

-Well, that poor wittle baby done went and got its wittle feelings hurt, huh? Are you all right lil' 3rdy? Here ya go sweetheart. Have a nice lie-down on Uncle DeSwiss' fainting couch here and that'll make it all better.

[truebluegreen]

77. Yup. And lost 0-7. Sad, isn't it? nt

[Jesus Malverde]

45. Wake em up woo!

[Odin2005]

47. Fascist infiltrators, all of 'em!

[TheKentuckian]

49. Keep on shining that bright light of truth!

[marmar]

62. K/R

[cascadiance]

64. Woo... Thanks for continuing to spread the truth...

I remember feeling this coming when I built photoshops back in 2008...

On the choice we had in the primaries when Edwards dropped out (which seemed like that and his past history was "conveniently arranged" to to arrive at that top two choice we had then.



Or for Hollywood references to the stealth nature of the then DLC and now Third Way infiltration of the Democratic Party.



Or for the only real chance Hillary has of engineering getting elected down the road now, with the growing awareness of the corporatist takeover coming by the people...

[True Blue Door]

66. I thought Third Way was this guy:

[img][/img]

[Rex]

67. More like this guy:

[DeSwiss]

72. Dang it, Woo!

- You've got the 3rdy's screaming and buzzing like a turned over bee hive! Great work!!!

K&R

[center][/center]



Love the parasite pic, btw. Sort of reminds me of Babs Bush in her early years.

[Enthusiast]

74. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!