Nancy Pelosi: Dems Will Be Forceful On Super Committee But Won't Draw 'Lines In The Sand'

DLC = Democratic Leadership Council

The corporate wing of the Democratic Party.  Blue Dogs are the DLC.  As more Democratic voters became savvy to what the DLC actually is about (Democrats­-In-Name-O­nly, Republican­s ideologica­lly), the DLC morphed into other groups like The Third Way, No Labels, etc.

I am an old liberal Democrat, committed to the Democratic Party's platform, but no Democrat in office today is.  Not one.  No profession­al Democrat is.  It is the nature of party politics in the US, a top-down hierarchy.  And if the president is from your party, he dictates the agenda and how it's going to be achieved.  There is nothing that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are doing that Obama hasn't just signed off on but ordered.  

I'm not playing word games when I say that "My votes, my money and my shoe leather won't be spent on any candidate from the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party".  I don't mean that I'll vote for Democratic candidates who claim to be liberals or progressiv­es.  No liberal or progressiv­e Democrat in office can achieve liberal or progressiv­e policies as long as the Democratic Party is controlled by the DLC.  

Liberal and progressiv­e Democrats in Congress are worthless - They've caved on everything­.  

Politico and the LA Times both reported that Joe Biden told the Democratic Caucus that Obama was prepared to invoke the 14th amendment should there be no deal.  The Democratic leadership drove this bad deal -- John Boehner did not have the votes for it and it was Pelosi who saved his butt, as was reported yesterday in an interview with her in Mother Jones.
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