Reply #68: History lesson: [View All]

[depakid]

The guy was one of Clinton's top political advisors and was the force behind pro-corporate DLC, Blue Dog, Third Way principles that required them to screw their base and even Democratic legislators- with such popular and "effective" policies as NAFTA.

Angered by a sense that he was subordinating all other priorities to corporate profits, and by the administration's cavalier attitude toward the hollowing out of America's industrial base, labor, environmental and social-justice activists nationwide withdrew their energy from Democratic campaigns.

This helped swing the 1994 election, much as the continued extension of these policies (particularly around dropping trade barriers with China) led just enough Democratic leaning voters in 2000 to help elect George Bush by staying home or voting for Ralph Nader.

And here's the kicker-

Rahm Emanuel himself had the temerity to tell the Wall Street Journal, the Clinton White House lost its way in its first two years by failing to "do what you got elected to do."

To which one can either react with this:

:rofl:

or this:

:grr: