Reply #62: New Dem agenda [View All]

[CWebster]

http://www.newdem.org/agenda/

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"Now an effort is under way to set this faux “centrism” in stone. One of the leading candidates for Democratic National Committee chairman is Simon Rosenberg, a former free-trade lobbyist and head of the business-backed New Democrat Network. His group is joined by even more organizations designed to push the party to the right. The Washington Post reports that a group calling itself the “Third Way” (read: “Wrong Way”) is forming to tout “centrist” policies for Democrats. Instead of leaving the Beltway and holding a town meeting to gauge the pulse of red America’s working-class core, the group held its initial meeting “over dinner at a Georgetown mansion.” Instead of engaging in grassroots funding efforts, it is openly relying on corporate contributions.

“The answer to the ideological extremes of the right has to be more than rigid dogma from the left,” said Senator Bayh, a leader of the new group and one of Washington’s most highly trumpeted “centrists.” But really, who is pushing a rigid dogma: these bankrolled politicians who have hijacked “centrism” to sell out America’s middle class, or the progressive populists who most often have the backing of the American people?"


http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1216-20.htm