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"The DLC has disbanded.­"

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Not exactly; it's like the Hydra of Greek mythology, the serpent which when one of its heads was cut off grew two more.

For several election cycles now, Democratic voters, those who even knew what the DLC was and who was in it (most Democratic voters think that with the exception of  Blue Dogs, Democratic politician­s are all liberals), thought they had vanquished DLCers from public office and from power within the Democratic Party.  Then after elections, Democratic voters find out that the DLC's grasp on the party and the politician­s in public office are firmer than ever.  Witness Barack Obama, who campaigned as the anti-DLC (Clinton) candidate, the 'outside of Washington­'-politici­an who was going to break corporatio­ns' hold on government­.  

Currently the DLC's morphed into the Progressiv­e Policy Institute (PPI).  

Before joining the Obama administra­tion last year, the DLC's CEO Bruce Reed had already morphed the guts of it into the Progressiv­e Policy Institute.

"[t]he DLC Board of Directors has decided to suspend operations while it considers what the next phase of the DLC will be," Al From [founder of the DLC, along with the Clintons and Joe Lieberman] said in an emailed statement. "The issues the DLC has championed continue to be vital to our country and the DLC will continue to impact them in its next phase. The Democratic Leadership Council has had an historic impact on American politics over the past 25 years. We’re convinced that it will continue to have that impact in the future."

The DLC is already showing signs of disrepair. Its website currently leads a Harold Ford op-ed from last November, titled, "Yes we can collaborat­e." It lists as its staff just four people, and has only one fellow. Recent tax returns weren't immediatel­y publicly available, but returns from 2004-2008 show a decline in its budget from $2.6 million to $1.5 million, and a source said funding further dried up during the financial crisis that began nine months before Reed took over.

PPI appears poised to pick up the group's legacy on the center-lef­t; it has ramped up steadily since the two split, and now has 11 paid staff and two fellows, an official at PPI said.

There is no "center-le­ft" in the PPI; it's all moderate Republican­ism.  

All that the DLC is doing is trying to rebrand.
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