DLC

[SeaBob]

I just went to the DLC home page and copied their "New democratric Credo" personally I think it a big fat load of hog slop created to justify thier existence.
here it is if you want to vomit
DLC | Key Document | January 1, 2001
The New Democrat Credo

In keeping with our party's grand tradition, we reaffirm Jefferson's belief in individual liberty and capacity for self-government. We endorse Jackson's credo of equal opportunity for all, special privileges for none. We embrace Roosevelt's thirst for innovation and Kennedy's summons to civic duty. And we intend to carry on Clinton's insistence upon new means to achieve progressive ideals.

We believe that the promise of America is equal opportunity for all and special privilege for none. We believe that economic growth generated in the private sector is the prerequisite for opportunity, and that government's role is to promote growth and to equip Americans with the tools they need to prosper in the New Economy.

We believe that government programs should be grounded in the values most Americans share: work, family, personal responsibility, individual liberty, faith, tolerance, and inclusion.

We believe in community; that we can achieve our individual destinies only if we share a commitment to our national destiny. We believe in an ethic of mutual responsibility in which government has an obligation to create opportunity for citizens, but citizens have an obligation to give something back to the commonwealth.

We believe America has a responsibility to lead the world toward greater political and economic freedom.

We believe that as advocates of activist government, we need to reinvent government so that it is both more responsive and more accountable to those it serves and to the taxpayers who pay for it.


Sounds like something any good corporate CEO with enough $ could BUY into
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[Trevelyan]

1. Jim Moran has got some absurd idea that "impeachment is not part of the

During that Jim Moran Town Hall Meeting with Jack Murtha, the anti-impeachment position was ALL Moran's
Murtha kept quiet about that, and about his pretty obvious frustration with the lack of support for his position from his Democratic House colleagues...

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Utter Crap

First off, this is proud and meaningless pap. Everyone believes in these things. Next they'll add that they believe in breathing, eating and sleeping.

Second, the DLC's shown repeatedly that they talk the talk, but don't "walk the walk". Clinton waged an unrelenting war against the middle class - allowing good jobs to be sent offshore and cheap goods to poor in. Hell, he'd do anything for a few shekels or a blowjob. Hillary was a Director of Walmart when it was pioneering the science of "Always Low Wages. Always." What creeps.

We need a real Roosevelt. Not poseurs.

[Kalisiin]

3. Exactly What I Was Going To Say

My reaction, exactly. The words sound great...unfortunately, one must "Wlak the walk" not just "talk the talk." DLC TALKS a great game, but when it comes down to following through on what they claim to believe in and stand for...that is where DLC falls short. DLC has proven time and again that it does not walk what it talks. We need a REAL progressive...not just people who TALK like progressives. We need a leader to ACT like a progressive. And the DLC isn't, in my not-so-humble opinion, likely to produce such a leader.