Exactly What Is The DLC ???

[WillyT]

And what is this guy doin there?

Marshall Wittmann



Marshall Wittmann is a senior fellow at the Democratic Leadership Council. Previously, he was Director of Communications for Senator John McCain (R-AZ). Mr. Wittmann has served in various positions with the Hudson Institute, Heritage Foundation, Christian Coalition and in the administration of President George H. W. Bush.

Is the DLC a Scaife organization???

:wtf:

And yeah... I've been reading all the various posts, and am definitely anti-DLC, but I had no idea they had guys like this there. Did he have some sort of conversion or something?

:shrug:

[niyad]

1. and this guy is on the DEMOCRATIC leadership council? no wonder they

are so completely screwed up? if he had a "conversion", suspect that he is definitely a DINO.

[MisterP]

2. a lot of their leadership members are also PNAC signatories

especially the PPI, which has its office in the DLC's

[niyad]

4. makes one shake one's head and go "hmmmmmm"

[WiseButAngrySara]

11. PPI?? .....n/t

[MisterP]

13. Progressive Policy Institute, advocates PNAC (Will Mashall, founder,

is a PNAC signatory) policies gussied up to make it look "liberal"--like Antonio Blairolini

[madfloridian]

3. Wittmann was a liberal first, then a staunch conservative...now DLC

Quite a varied resume. He was a lobbyist for Pat Robertson at the Christian Coalition.

Here is his biography and words about himself.
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=10110

He does the Bull Moose blog. Sometimes I agree, sometimes not.

[Angry Girl]

5. DLC a corporate-funded group (NOT related to DNC!)

According to Acme Jack at this thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2152080&mesg_id=2152147

Looking out over Washington, DC, from his plush office, Al From is once again foaming at the mouth. The CEO of the corporate-sponsored Democratic Leadership Council and his wealthy cronies are in their regular postelection attack mode. Despite wins by economic populists in red states like Colorado and Montana this year, the DLC is claiming like a broken record that progressive policies are hurting the Democratic Party.

From's group is funded by huge contributions from multinationals like Philip Morris, Texaco, Enron and Merck, which have all, at one point or another, slathered the DLC with cash. Those resources have been used to push a nakedly corporate agenda under the guise of "centrism" while allowing the DLC to parrot GOP criticism of populist Democrats as far-left extremists. Worse, the mainstream media follow suit, characterizing progressive positions on everything from trade to healthcare to taxes as ultra-liberal. As the AP recently claimed, "party liberals argue that the party must energize its base by moving to the left" while "the DLC and other centrist groups argue that the party must court moderates and find a way to compete in the Midwest and South."

And AJ also cited
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050103/sirota (good article)
and
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=5453
(haven't read it yet)

[LincolnMcGrath]

6. Keep a sharp eye out for the DLC Militia

They lurk! lol :scared:

[depakid]

7. It might as well be a Scaife organization

the only difference is that it's been MUCH more successful in destroying the Democratic party and enacting far right policies across the board than any Republican group could hope for....

The sooner that they're disgraced and shown the door (in no uncertain terms) the sooner the party regains some relevancy in American politics.

[TahitiNut]

8. He wrote an interesting Op/Ed in the WashPost in 2002 ...

Just a Party Pooper? No, Just Independent

By Marshall Wittmann
Sunday, September 15, 2002; Page B02

If it is true that life is a journey, then my political voyage has been the mother of all odysseys. I am perhaps the only American to have worked for both Cesar Chavez (1975 grape boycott) and Linda Chavez (1986 Senate campaign). As a Jew who served as the legislative director of the Christian Coalition, I embodied the question, "What is a nice Jewish boy doing in a place like this?"

Now I have reached yet another destination. After being a conservative Republican for the past 16 years, I am leaving the GOP. Before you conclude that this is merely one of those 180-degree, born-again conversions, please consider my tale. I do not entirely renounce the right or wholeheartedly embrace the left. I find myself now part of the most dynamic part of the electorate -- the independent center, which is not represented completely by either of the major parties.

I began my ususual journey as a precocious political teenager in Waco, Tex., in 1968. There, my contrarian nature first asserted itself when I became an anti-war activist and a campaigner for Gene McCarthy for president. Needless to say, Waco was not a hotbed of anti-war sentiment, and there was no McCarthy tidal wave in conservative central Texas. Nevertheless, I had gotten my first taste of politics, and I continued on my voyage.

Throughout my college years, I pursued political activism that led to my first job out of the University of Michigan: working for the United Farm Workers for a salary of $5 a week plus room and board, which pleased my parents no end. I eventually ended up in Washington working for a labor union and then for a retiree association.

Gradually, though, I became disillusioned with liberalism. Like many former Jewish lefties who were becoming neo-conservatives, I thought it was a contradiction to believe in a strong Israel and a weak United States. Not only was I becoming more conservative on foreign policy, I also began questioning liberal positions on social issues such as welfare and racial quotas.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A16368-2002Sep14¬Found=true

[Solly Mack]

9. You know how denial ain't just a river in Egypt? Well, "Co-op" (co-opt)

ain't just a co-operatively owned supermarket either.

[longship]

10. They are a Political Action Committee

with the sole purpose of turning the Democratic Party into the Republican party of the 1950's.

That is all it is.

[MaryBear]

12. Interesting, Willy T.

I have simply had enough of the smelly little orthodoxies that too often animate our political life to remain with either party.

So here I am, neither a donkey nor an elephant, but a cheerful Bull Moose grazing in the vital center of the political plain.

And there's plenty of room.

I'd say he in the muddy somewhere, way off center of the plain.

Pro-life? I wonder how he would describe that, and where the limits of his definition would be.

DLC? Oh, my!

[AntiCoup2K4]

14. What the DLC exactly is....

is a CANCER on the Democratic Party. And if this cancer is not in remission by 2006, and cured by 2008, this party is terminal.

[WillyT]

15. Ha... Choo... Kick !!!

Sorry...

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