Last night labor and the Left won, the DLC and RNC lost, and we're better off for it.

[DainBramaged]

Labor and the Progressives handed Blanche (what a fucked up name) Lincoln a shit sandwich, Critz made the RNC strategy look like they were yet again playing three card monte and lost to themselves, Arlin 'which way is the wind blowing' Specter is finally getting his wrinkled ass out of Washington, Ron Paul will lose in November by over 100,000 votes, and Rahm Emanuel is wondering where his ass is and who has it to hand it back to him. Maybe they'll learn something from this, but I really don't think so.


God I love unhappy unscripted endings.

[Oceansaway]

1. K&R...n/t

[seabeyond]

2. did lincoln lose last night? nt

[laughingliberal]

5. She failed to get 50% and faces a runoff. nt

[seabeyond]

18. excellent. last i had heard she won.... i am glad to hear it. nt

[DainBramaged]

6. Is her position considered winning? How do you think it will play out?

Do you think that the DLC will spend one dime in Arkansas? I think it is now off limits, and may the best man win, and that man will not be Bancheeeeeeee :puke:

[tavalon]

11. Yeah, they'll spend plenty

We'll need to counter. I'm sending some money.

[seabeyond]

20. hope so. i think it is important she loses. thanks.

i really had not heard. last i heard last night, i thought she won. so was surprised. didnt know it is a run off. thrilled it is a run off. thanks

[Wednesdays]

10. She couldn't get 50%, IIRC

So, there'll be a run-off.

[seabeyond]

21. appreciate it. i hadnt heard

last night i thought she had won. so this is a happy moment for me that there is a run off.

[rpannier]

68. Last Count was at 89% counted

Halter had 600 more votes

Web Site:
http://arkansasmatters.com/content/Elections2010_Results

[seabeyond]

79. thanks for the update. nt

[WeDidIt]

3. There is no DLC. n/t

[tavalon]

7. What have those little weasels changed their name to?

[WeDidIt]

8. Ther eis no DLC

DLC is a bogeyman strawman for people who have no argument.

[tavalon]

14. Are you being obtuse?

So, they changed their name, they are still infiltrators in our party. New Democrats, Third Way Democrats, DLC, different name, same strategy - destroy the Democratic Party from the inside.

Do your research.

[Lerkfish]

28. the DLC is trying desperately to rebrand themselves as "liberals" to fool us

what they don't get is that we're a little too smart for that to work.

[havocmom]

33. Not unlike a lot of GOP pols talkin 'family values' to pander to fundy Christians

while the pols were boinking various non-spousal units

They have benefited from the passion and hard work on the left for elections then handed us mops and put us on cleaning up after the victory bash while they went off with the corporitist GOP and all those lobbyists to agree on how the people were to be screwed.

The Corporitist (since they are now ducking 'DLC') DEMs have used then abused the passionate, reliable workers of the liberal wing of the party once too often, methinks.

Corporate DEMs got a message back last night:'Fuck you. Strong message to follow."

[tigereye]

39. huh? Infiltrators?

They only managed to get many Dems elected in 2006 and 2008.

[tavalon]

53. I credit Howard Dean's 50 state strategy

[kenfrequed]

76. zero credit

Actually in 2006 and 2008 the Rahm backed DLC friendly candidates were usually the ones that fared poorly. Candidates that ran on progressive values did well. Dean's fifty state strategy was a success.

Those few DLC democrats that did manage to win over the last decade or so are also those selfsame democrats that stabbed us repeatedly in the back on healthcare reform and many other Democratic issues.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

48. Check out the sig line --

"Obtuse" seems to be one of those Will Marshall "progresives". ;)

[Ichingcarpenter]

51. ....

Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more centrist orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council.

He recently served on the board of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, an organization chaired by Joe Lieberman and John McCain designed to build bipartisan support for the invasion of Iraq. Marshall also signed, at the outset of the war, a letter issued by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) expressing support for the invasion. Marshall signed a similar letter sent to President Bush put out by the Social Democrats USA on Feb. 25, 2003, just before the invasion. The SDUSA letter urged Bush to commit to "maintaining substantial U.S. military forces in Iraq for as long as may be required to ensure a stable, representative regime is in place and functioning."

He writes frequently on political and public policy matters, especially the "Politics of Ideas" column in Blueprint, the DLC's magazine. Notably, he is one of the co-authors of Progressive Internationalism: A Democratic National Security Strategy.

[Enthusiast]

64. Sounds like he should

change over to a Republican so he can admit where his true sentiments lie.

[Tesha]

26. "There is no Dana, only Zuul!" (NT)

[rudy23]

30. They're called DLXe now. They're rebranding.

A wise move if you ask me.

[leftstreet]

31. ...

:spray:

[arcadian]

34. That is fitting

good one
:thumbsup: :rofl:

[geardaddy]

40. X for Xtreme?

:D

[Blue_In_AK]

63. Oh, I love that.

:rofl:

[Hardrada]

66. Excellent! Just what they are, the swine.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

42. No? Then what's this?

http://www.dlc.org

[kenfrequed]

75. Uhm what??!!

Are you for real or are you just trolling?

[zipplewrath]

9. "New Democrats"

'Cause, ya know, all them "old democrats" just ain't doing it these days.

[suffragette]

61. Rather like New Labour and Tony Blair

and we all see what that led to in the recent UK election.
Labour was torn to pieces by their version of the DLC and now they are trying to go back to their roots.

[laughingliberal]

25. I believe they now call themselves "New Democrats." eom

[cascadiance]

57. "New Democrats" are about as "New" as the genre "Modern Rock" is now "modern"...

Though I had been and still like what was called "Modern Rock" in those days...

They are HAS BEENS, and have been exposed to not be *real* Democrats...

Anxiously waiting to see more of them go down and the people incrementally taking back control over our government.

Get out your glasses and see more of them!

[Dr.Phool]

59. They used to be Old Republicans.

But the Old Republicans were more liberal than the DLC and "New Democrats".

[DainBramaged]

12. Really?

http://www.dlc.org/

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.

[WeDidIt]

15. They;re broke. They can't influence shit

They haven't had any money since 2005.

It's all just a big assed ogeyman strawman that gets thrown around DU.

Sorta like ACORN for the Freepers.

[rudy23]

29. Except they're in the White House. Oh look, a link from two weeks ago:

http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=86&subid=85&contentid=893

[Donnachaidh]

35. oh yeah, they really have *NO* influence

gotta wonder about the folks who keep claiming this tired message.

[Denzil_DC]

65. "Oh look, a link from two weeks ago"

In fact, FWIW, it's a link from a YEAR and two weeks ago!

[kenfrequed]

77. Is March recent enough for you?

http://www.dlc.org/documents/TownSquaresforAging.pdf

[DainBramaged]

41. if you believe that I have a bridge for you............

[redqueen]

49. So Rahm being in the WH and fighting so hard against HCR...

that's what... invisible to you? Meaningless?

[tavalon]

16. Google is our friend

That almost makes them sound like the good guys instead of the infiltrators and destroyers of what was once a good and proud party.

Spin til you puke.

[bvar22]

36. No DLC ?...LOL

Better go tell these people:


The DLC New Team
Progressives Need NOT Apply

(Screen Capped from the DLC Website)

”I am a New Democrat!”---Barack Obama
http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254931&kaid=85&subid=900184

The DLC is very real, and is in firm control of the Democratic Party Leadership through their "Corporate" Funding Connections. Their fingerprints are ALL over the recent Health Care Reform failure.
Next on their list: the destruction of Social Security.

"By their works, you will know them."

"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans."---Paul Wellstone

[Marr]

47. I finally understand you.

You're doing comedy.

[Lorien]

71. True. They've been the GOP all along

they just call themselves the "Democratic Leadership Council" in hopes of leading us all off a cliff.

[Kingofalldems]

4. K and R for the truth

[uponit7771]

13. knr

[lunatica]

17. I never believed the 'historical' crap about coming losses in the midterms

The GOP has sunk so low that no one can pretend otherwise. Being unhappy with Obama so far doesn't make people stupid about the disaster that's become of the Republican party. Even the teabaggers get that part. I wonder how the pundits feel about the teabaggers being smarter than they are.

That's like Sarah Palin being on the genius side of the bell curve compared to them.

[Echo In Light]

19. K/R

[Hubert Flottz]

22. Do you remember the weeks of raving the MSM did over how...

Scott Brown's win meant that the GOP was poised to take over the country?

I'll bet they don't rave for weeks about the RNC/DLC slap downs yesterday.

[DainBramaged]

23. Absolutely. Tweety was SILENT last night about his love interest Scott Brown

I laughed my ass off at how it played out and how M$NoBodyCares played it last night.


WE FUCKING WON, and none of them get it still.

[stray cat]

24. We will only be better off if the chosen candidates can get in office

they have to win the general to have any positive meaning - if we lose the general to the GOP when we could have won it its not a win

[MilesColtrane]

27. Seems to be a lot of whistling in the dark here about November.

What we're seeing isn't so much a particular left turn as it is a rabid anybody-but-the-guy-currently-in-office sentiment.

[laughingliberal]

62. Neither race (PA or AR) is in more danger of going GOP than it would have been...

had the more conservative candidate won. Sestak was polling better against Toomey than Specter. Linoln is not polling better against the Republican than Halter. If Halter wins the run off and loses the general, we can assume Lincoln would not have kept the seat, either. If Sestak loses the general, we can assume Specter would have lost it worse.

[dmallind]

32. So you're celebrating a pro-life pro-gun anti-HRC Dem as a win for the left?

Only one guy actually won a seat yesterday and he's further right than I am and than most Blue Dogs/DLC members are too.

[PassingFair]

37. Sestak had the NARAL endorsement.

Not Specter.

[dmallind]

46. Sestak didn't win a seat. Anti-choice Critz did. NT

[BuelahWitch]

43. Sestak supports Roe v. Wade and stem cell research

http://www.ontheissues.org/PA/Joe_Sestak_Abortion.htm

[dmallind]

45. Good. I'm glad. The post crowed about Critz though. NT

[DainBramaged]

52. Yup, all the more reason Obama SHOULD have supported him over Sphincter

:hi:

[harkadog]

55. The post was about Crist. Nice try though.

[PassingFair]

38. The DSCC has called me THREE TIMES this morning.

Once on each of my lines...

:rofl:

Told them I couldn't risk giving them money to support Blanche Lincoln!

Told them that I support the Senate and Obama by attempting to
let them know that Americans want Progressive legislation.

NOT legislation that STARTS in the watery ideological middle and moves
to the right bank.

:patriot:

[laughingliberal]

44. +1000 nt

[DainBramaged]

50. +10000

:applause:

[Dr.Phool]

60. +100000

[Lorien]

70. +100,000

[Individualist]

54. The sooner DLC is nothing more than an ugly memory, the better.

As evidenced by yesterday's votes, that won't be very long.

[Taverner]

56. Yes. Last night was a victory.

May the DNC balance pragmatism (nothing wrong with REAL pragmatism) and progressiveness!!!

[merkins]

58. DLC is a festering pus of disease

K&R

[bertman]

67. REC. nt

[Lorien]

69. I'm actually looking forward to November. May it be a total BLOODBATH for

the Teabaggers, GOP and DLCers!!

[tavalon]

72. On the front page

As it should be.

[onestepforward]

73. K&R!

[Omaha Steve]

74. K&R!

[NNN0LHI]

78. We better wait for the general election before we start patting ourselves on the back too hard

Primaries are the beginning not the end.

Don