Monday, March 07, 2005

Dems Lean Left

The New Republic said Today Democrats find themselves in a similar predicament; yet those clamoring most loudly for change have turned to New Democrats not for inspiration, but for vilification. To the MoveOn activists, liberal bloggers, and Deaniacs on the rise within the party, New Democrats are shills for corporate America who, in the words of The Nation, "have hijacked 'centrism' to sell out America's middle class." New Democrats, they argue, are without principle; like their leader Bill Clinton, they triangulate their way from issue to issue, abandoning Democratic values in the process.

NDOL pushes a A Reform Insurgency to get on the offensive again as true progressives

NewDonkey favors a reform agenda [that] represents a return to our insurgent roots prior to the 1992 Clinton campaign

And yet their poster girl, Hillary Clinton, is racing to the center, trying to pretend that she is a New Democrat like her husband.

Sounds like schizophrenia to me.

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