MUST READ FROM EJ Dionne!

[Grand Taurean]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/17/AR2010011701934.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

On the economy:

"This," he said, "would seem like an excellent time for the Democrats to take power."

[liberalpragmatist]

1. Democrats: stuck cleaning up Republican messes since 1932

Carter, Clinton, and Obama all get this blamed for getting stuck with Republicans' bags of shit.

[ShortnFiery]

4. Clinton didn't help, he made it worse through NAFTA and Welfare Reforms ...

plus the reascending of the Glass Stiegel Act.

[eShirl]

6. +1

[Festivito]

7. That's Republican Right-wing bullshit.

Glass Steagall act was presented with a veto-proof majority and he and US were better off with Clinton signing it giving him more time to watch what they would do with it.

And, the disparity of world pay does need to be addressed and answered. NAFTA was not perfect, but it was written by Rs.

[snot]

2. K&R'd

[ShortnFiery]

3. Bunk. "Liberals and Obama.?" WTF? He's a corporatist and a centrist, NOT a liberal.

:thumbsdown:

What Mr. Whorshington Post's E.J. Dionne FAILS to tell you is that the Democratis have failed to uphold the "working Americans' values and needs" over that of the large corporations. Both parties are scampering to gain favor of the corporations NOT the average hard working American.

This has NOTHING to do with Liberal vs. Conservative because we live in one big RIGHT WING DUOPOLY.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/kuzminski08182004.html

The minority status of the Democratic Party was disguised by its lingering control of Congress (until 1994) and the fluke election (thanks to Ross Perot) of Bill Clinton. Social activists and progressives of various sorts remained the party's base, even as party leaders, embodied in the Democratic Leadership Council, sensing the limited electoral appeal of the progressive agenda, steadily drifted to the right. Their failure to rearticulate a compelling vision of social justice and democracy sealed the party's fate. Conservative attacks on 'big government,' and their promotion of 'deregulation' not only of much of the economy but of campaign financing, solidified the corruption of the political process. As early as the Carter years, conservatives captured the leadership of the Democratic as well as the Republican parties, and created the two-party, right-wing duopoly which now confronts us.

There are simply no remaining effective instruments of political action available to the restless masses, who are probably a majority of the country, and most of whom, as a result, no longer participate in the political process at all.

[me b zola]

5. KNR