Comments on: The DLC Is Dead, Thank God http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/07/28/the-dlc-is-dead-thank-god/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:11:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Wellstone http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/07/28/the-dlc-is-dead-thank-god/#comment-65418 Wellstone Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:12:34 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5620#comment-65418 One of the little-ballyhooed connections is between the DLC and the Pundit Class in Washington. The DLC gained stature because of people like Broder, Ignatius, Kelin, Russert, Cokie Roberts et.al., people who value "centrism" regardless of the consequences and gave From and his crew airtime and column inches. People who nodded approvingly as Cheney, Scalia, Thomas, Limbaugh and Bush MOVED the Center to the Right, and took the Pundit Class with them. We, who USED to be the center wandered around disenfranchised, raging against people like Michael O'Hanlon and Joe Lieberman who wittingly or unwittingly chopped the legs out from moderates who counselled no war in Iraq, no deficit spending, no tax cuts, no.. well, you get the point. Now, we moderates have established a new center, built around truth and immediate accountability and citizen journalism. That's where Ollie and KOS and comments like this one come in. DLC has no one to blame but themselves. When their axis was moved, they were supposed to rage and hold their terra firma. But then, what would have happened to the invites to those delicious foie-gras canapés, and the Johnny Walker Blue at all those Washington soirées with Andrea Mitchell, Greenspan, and the Cheneys? They bought their bed. Now let them lie in it. One of the little-ballyhooed connections is between the DLC and the Pundit Class in Washington.

The DLC gained stature because of people like Broder, Ignatius, Kelin, Russert, Cokie Roberts et.al., people who value “centrism” regardless of the consequences and gave From and his crew airtime and column inches.

People who nodded approvingly as Cheney, Scalia, Thomas, Limbaugh and Bush MOVED the Center to the Right, and took the Pundit Class with them.

We, who USED to be the center wandered around disenfranchised, raging against people like Michael O’Hanlon and Joe Lieberman who wittingly or unwittingly chopped the legs out from moderates who counselled no war in Iraq, no deficit spending, no tax cuts, no.. well, you get the point.

Now, we moderates have established a new center, built around truth and immediate accountability and citizen journalism. That’s where Ollie and KOS and comments like this one come in.

DLC has no one to blame but themselves. When their axis was moved, they were supposed to rage and hold their terra firma.

But then, what would have happened to the invites to those delicious foie-gras canapés, and the Johnny Walker Blue at all those Washington soirées with Andrea Mitchell, Greenspan, and the Cheneys?

They bought their bed. Now let them lie in it.

]]> By: Retired Catholic http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/07/28/the-dlc-is-dead-thank-god/#comment-65417 Retired Catholic Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:02:27 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5620#comment-65417 You still kind of support NAFTA? What? You still can't hear that giant sucking sound. First, it sucked jobs out of America, now is sucking desparate people into America from Mexico and Central America. It was the only thing Ross Perot was ever right about, except maybe when he took his Mercs to Iran to rescue his employees. You still kind of support NAFTA? What? You still can’t hear that giant sucking sound. First, it sucked jobs out of America, now is sucking desparate people into America from Mexico and Central America. It was the only thing Ross Perot was ever right about, except maybe when he took his Mercs to Iran to rescue his employees.

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Gore listened to them then, took their advice, and lost himself an election.

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