Lynn Woolsey Should Resign as Head of the Progressive Caucus
Saturday, March 6, 2010
The 2008 election was a head-to-head between liberals and the DLC (pro-corporate, DINOs). The problem was that the base thought that voting for Obama meant the end of the DLC (Clintons). No sooner did Obama win than he hired all of the Clintonites (DLC), & squeezed out Howard Dean (responsible for the 50-state strategy that won it for Obama) - More on Dean, who is NOT a liberal, later.
Obama stole the Clintons' strategy (to vanquish the left from the Democratic Party, & bring in moderate Republican politicians and voters who can't abide the fringe rightwingers controlling the Republican Party), with some minor tweaks.
The plan is to move the Democratic Party to the right by alienating, marginalizing, breaking up the different interest groups within the liberal base of the Democratic party (civil libertarians, anti-war, pro-choice, etc.), drive them out of the party and bring moderate Republicans (both politicians who can't deal with the Republican Party's base, the evangelical Christians, who are controlling their party & moderate Republican voters, like Susan Eisenhower) into the Democratic Party. To have a centrist party which would govern for 100+ years.
This was the Clintons' plan (and why I think Bill Clinton was so angry with Obama) because Obama stole the plan with a minor change -- Obama is going for a couple of special interest groups within the Republican Party in a bigger way (defense industry hawks) and one of which Clinton could never hope to bring over (Christian Republicans).
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
