Puke Alert : Al From: Hoyer for Majority Leader

[jaysunb]

I liked the idea of Murtha from the beginning, but when this hit my mailbox I knew he was the one :evilgrin:



Al From: Hoyer for Majority Leader


Last Tuesday, Democrats won back control of the House in a stunning reversal of the 2004 election. The Democratic victory represented a striking repudiation of a Bush administration and Republican Party that has so often subordinated problem-solving to power seeking, competence to ideology, honesty and integrity to corruption and cronyism, and the politics of national unity to the politics of polarization.

Republicans deliberately abandoned the political center and invited Democrats to occupy it. If you look at the victorious Democratic candidates in "red" and "purple" states and districts, it's clear that they did. And while Democrats benefited from an energized party base, the key to the victory was in the contested center of the electorate, among moderates, independents, middle-class voters, and suburbanites. These voters could represent an expanded Democratic base, and an enduring progressive majority, if they can keep it. The best way to achieve that is for Democrats to use their new power wisely.

That's why House Democrats should elect Steny Hoyer as majority leader. As Democratic Whip, Hoyer was a vital part of the team that produced this victory. His record as Whip has been exemplary. In a year where corruption was cited in exit polls as a critical issue, Hoyer is a leader with integrity who has been out front on reform issues. His background and experience position him, and the Democratic Caucus, exactly where they ought to be if they hope to turn the temporary majority of November 7 into an enduring majority in 2008 and beyond.

Hoyer is being challenged by another good Democrat, John Murtha. On the most important economic, security, social and reform issues facing our nation, Hoyer's views best reflect the broad center of views in our party and our county.

If we want to keep the House, Democrats need to be the party of reform and problem-solving. Steny Hoyer is the kind of majority leader who will help Democrats keep the majority. House Democrats should support him.


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[elehhhhna]

1. Look, when the pendulum has swung to a complete RIGHT angle,

it don't just swing back to the middle.

That's not progress, and it's also scientifically impossible.

[mod mom]

2. I DON"T trust the DLC:

just re-posted this yesterday:

Al From is founder and chief executive officer of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), a dynamic idea action center of the "Third Way" governing philosophy that is reshaping progressive politics in the United States and around the globe. He is also chairman of the Third Way Foundation and publisher of the DLC's flagship bi-monthly magazine, Blueprint: Ideas for a New Century.

As a founder of the DLC -- birthplace of the New Democrat movement and the Third Way in America -- and its companion think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), From leads a national movement that since the mid-1980s has provided both the action agenda and the ideas for New Democrats to successfully challenge the conventional political wisdom in America and, in the process, redefine the center of the Democratic Party.



Will Marshall, the head of PPI signed PNAC letters.
(Called "Bill Clinton's idea mill," the Progressive Policy Institute was responsible for many of the Clinton administration's initiatives...)
Starting right after 9/11.
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Along with such neocon stalwarts as Robert Kagan, Bruce Jackson, Joshua Muravchik, James Woolsey, and Eliot Cohen, a half-dozen Democrats were among the 23 individuals who signed PNAC's first letter on post-war Iraq. Among the Democrats were Ivo Daalder of the Brookings Institution and a member of Clinton's National Security Council staff; Martin Indyk, Clinton's ambassador to Israel; Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute and Democratic Leadership Council; Dennis Ross, Clinton's top adviser on the Israel-Palestinian negotiations; and James Steinberg, Clinton's deputy national security adviser and head of foreign policy studies at Brookings.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0522-10.htm

More about Will Marshall
Note the PNAC link to the left.
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1295


I don't trust them: Carville is dissing Dean,Rahm is taking credit for the election, despite his attempted undermining of Dean's SUCCESSFUL 50 State Strategy, and now the DLC is backing Hoyer-NO THANKS! I back Dean.

[tavalon]

3. Yep, that's my problem with Steny Hoyer

He's DLC backed and nothing good ever comes out of that place.