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To: MrLucky who wrote (28213)	9/8/2006 12:00:44 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542597

The populist approach has been a failure! That was the approach that elected Clinton twice and took 48% of the popular presidential vote in 2000 and 2004, or am I mistaken? Perhaps in the Rovian %50.x world it is a failure, but the "general voter" has behaved quite differently from your characterization according to the actual numbers from the last 15 years of electoral politics.

To: MrLucky who wrote (28213)	9/8/2006 3:34:39 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542597

ML, it's obvious you are on the campaign trail. Fine. But back to real attempts to understand what sorts of economic proposals are likely to come from Dems as opposed to those of Reps, that's what the article is about. In your reply, also, you write as if Rubin and Summers are standing outside the Dem party to make those proposals. Last time I checked each was a past Secretary of the Treasury in the most recent Dem administration. Rubin even attained iconic status as such. A bit of education is in order. The Dems, on domestic policy, are all over the lot, but the lot doesn't extend all the way to the farther extremes of the Rep party, which is where Bush is governing from. It does, however, extend to some fairly conservative economic policies, the sort the first Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration, Lloyd Bentsen, would advocate. And extends over to . . . .hmm, I don't know, perhaps Bernie Sanders might join the Dem party. Who knows? Rubin's take on economic issues, well I should widen the frame since it's very important to him to conflate international and economic issues--he sees them as essentially rather than acidentally tied, his take on economic issues is roughly within a frame that fits the DLC. Summers, traditionally, has been a bit more to the left than that, but may not be now. As I said in my note, I will have some quarrels with these policies when we see the particulars. But whether I like them or not, they are so far preferable to the present administration's policies that I can live with them. And not complain. Too much. And back to the article, its point is not to lay out the policies but to note that Rubin has a foundation/institute in Wash which is devoting itself to such work.