Reply #11: 1988-2004 "The Democrats actually won all five elections by an average 8-9m votes. Don't believe it?

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...Run the numbers yourself."

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What if the whole Hollywood production that has been titled “America’s Right Turn,” was nothing more than a phantom, a marketing creation, a fad...

What if our party and our country really did not want to be dragged kicking and screaming to the right? Trouble is the media's message was always with those who preached the gospel of moving right. ...

Just think about it. What if it was all hype about that "right turn"? They managed to get us into one tragic war, and if indications are right...the powers that be might go along with another.

For those of you not familiar with the Democratic Leadership Council a brief aside is in order. In 1985 a group dominated by conservative Southern Democrats including Al Gore, Chuck Robb, Sam Nunn, John Breaux, and an Arkansas governor named William Jefferson Clinton organized the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) with the initial mission of securing the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination for a moderate Southerner.

By 1990 Bill Clinton had became chair of the DLC. His first act was to preside over the formulation of the 1990 New Orleans Declaration. This document would become the blueprint for Clinton’s future and that of the Democratic Party. The most telling of these principles are:

We believe the Democratic Party’s fundamental mission is to expand opportunity, not government.

We believe that economic growth is the prerequisite to expanding opportunity for everyone. The free market, regulated in the public interest**, is the best engine of general prosperity.

More than a fad and mere hype: there was also Election Fraud.

**Is this an example of DLC-Bill Clinton's principle of "regulating in the public interest":

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6384550&mesg_id=6385943

Read opening text and see the video of Keith Olbermann's June 18, 2008

John McCain's Connection to Big Oil & The Enron Loophole

with background on the Chairwoman of the pre-Clinton Commodities Futures Trading Commission (Wendy Gramm, wife of McCain-advisor and former TX Senator Phil Gramm) and her influence in making "hands off Enron" official regulatory policy of the CFTC that Clinton inherited.

Then note the highlighted words of KO, before he "fast forwards to the year 2000", when

Enron got a law passed containing what is now known as the Enron loophole. Where Gramm deregulated individual trades, the Enron loophole deregulated entire markets... ONLINE markets.

Enron had just started it's own ONLINE MARKET...and SET ITS SIGHTS on the STATE of California.

Over the next six months CA suffered 38 rolling blackouts, as Enron used artificial shortages, bogus deals, and total knowledge of the market AS SOLE OWNER OF ITS OWN ONLINE MARKET to TREBLE California's energy bills.

In the dark, regulators had less power than California did, leaving Enron laughing about it. "

"Clinton never undid Gramm's changes."

Presumably Pres. Bill Clinton had means after Wendy Gramm departed the CFTC, but his apparent inaction on CFTC "hands off regulatory policy" re Enron/Lay left CEO Ken Lay's "oil futures trading" activities unchecked between 1992 and 2000, preliminary to Lay's success at getting new law passed in 2000 that led to the gaming of California's energy markets months later at an eventual cost to CA of $11 Billion (courtesy Pete Wilson, Lay and "public servant" stooge Sch*zenegger, secretly in cahoots with Lay a year before running for governor of CA and, within 72 hours upon taking which office, settling Lt. Gov Bustamante's lawsuit to recover the filched $9 Billion).

According to KO's report, John McCain, too, appears unwilling to take regulatory action in the public interest to close the "Enron Loophole".

DLC-Bill Clinton -- recommender of GWBush advisor Mark Penn for Hillary's campaign ("Hillary Endorses McCain above Obama - Again and Again") -- has something in common with McCain: inaction against unregulated business interests at great expense to the public interest, including $4 gas.