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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (344632)7/30/2007 7:34:38 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) of 1572159
 
Democrats, moderate and liberal, have been bewildered by the group’s post-Clinton agenda. Take, for example, the law passed by Congress in 2005 that makes it harder for ordinary people to declare bankruptcy. The measure’s only obvious beneficiary was the credit-card industry, and most Democrats opposed it. One main exception was a coalition of House members allied with the council. In an implicit rebuke to their Democratic colleagues, these New Democrats declared their support for the bill “as champions of both personal and fiscal responsibility.”

In the face of such commercial fascism, how can GOP leaders tell us they are for the people and that the Republican party is for the poor as well as the rich? What a joke!

On a variety of issues the council, and not the party’s liberal base, is out of touch with the popular mood. A recent Washington Post poll found that 60 percent of independents, along with 70 percent of Democrats, favor withdrawing from Iraq by next spring.

Two decades of work by the Democratic Leadership Council — and a not inconsiderable assist from President Bush — have made the Democratic Party the healthiest it has been in the 22 years of the council’s existence. Democrats should thank the group and then tell it that it’s no longer needed.

There is no question the Democratic party is healthier. For many of us, we will never vote for a GOPer again.
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