Obama Assault Weapons Ban Proposal Recalls Memories Of 1994 Battle

The DLC is the Democratic Leadership Council, aka the Republican/corporate wing of the Democratic Party.  When the blowback got to be too much (when the rank-and-file Democratic voter started catching on to their anti-populist ways) and made them ineffective, they morphed into the Third Way and No Labels.  In politics, the credo is "Keep low and keep moving".
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