Comments on: The DLC Is MIA

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:12:52 +0000

The DLC has been subsumed by Obama. Look at all the names of the DLCers that now work for Obama. (conservatives should take lessons from Obama in order to figure out how to subvert the GOP establishment) And these aren’t minor players, Rahm and Hillary are big time DLCers. But really the issue is this, DLCers are less relevant because the democrats have already pushed their governing majority almost to it’s fringe. Now that fringe is Blue Dog democrats, not DLCers (or New Democrats). I mean, who do you think were the democrats that voted against the stimulus or against the budget, or against the first bailout?

As for the resident PUMA, how long can a sour apple last?

By: LeighB

LeighB — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:42:26 +0000

The DLC is MIA and no one cares…how sad.

By: LeighB

LeighB — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:08:04 +0000

therealist, nothing would make me happier than if you are spot on and HRC resigns in disgust and challenges BHO for the nomination in 2012.

I don’t know if the D-party would allow it, they’d find a way to disallow some results as they did in 2008 and then stall until the busloads of koolaid drinkers made it to the caucuses on time. Helpful hint to the team from Chicago: 16 year olds from NY just don’t “pass” as Texans, you gotta do better at recruiting from the region.

I hope the centrists have a candidate they can get behind in 2012–we need a POTUS who understands economics and loves this country. And not in that order.

By: AThinkingPerson

AThinkingPerson — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:22:30 +0000

How interesting! Conservatives have been told to put a fork in it because their ideas were “dead”. I’m guessing we can now add moderate Democrats to that pyre? That leaves us with Liberal, Left Democratics. God Help us all.

By: therealist

therealist — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:09:57 +0000

Good article. The DLC was the “grownups”, the guys that understood that yes we do have to defend America, grow our economy, balance the budget, etc, but still also believed that you can set up some good government programs, mostly around education and health care that do more good than harm. (A lot of their programs are innovative public/private partnerships.) Intellectually its at least coherent and they can be reasoned with. It’s sad to see them go, if not least because I would certainly rather be governed by a DLC Democrat who wants to grow the GDP and then skim a little off the top for redistribution rather than a KosKid prog who sees America as an imperialist and the free market as a crime and won’t be happy until I’m locked in some North Cuban nightmare with them as the cultural police. It’s pretty much all Howard Dean’s and George Soros’ fault.

So what’s the effect? I believe that without the DLC as a counterweight, the Democrat party will simply implode more quickly. If you read a book like Mark Levin’s (I’m 60% through it), you might have a hard time associating his description of statism with a DLC Democrat like Clinton who reforms welfare, approves NAFTA, hires more cops, bombs bosnia, and balances the budget. But with Obama the characterization is dead on. The sad part is how many of the centrists later decided to jump on the Obama bandwagon. The two Clintons should be preparing for their ’12 primary challenge and running on the economic wreckage not trying to win the nobel prize for Naivety with these embarrassing overtures to Iran. I’m hoping the game isn’t over and HRC resigns in disgust next year and starts her campaign early.