Reply #8: Well, if any Dem needed another reason to dislike Blair, there it is.

[No Elephants]

Al From and the DLC got to Tony, too. It's like a frickin' virus.




"Founded after a series of crushing defeats when some thought the Democratic Party was destined for extinction, the DLC has provided both the action agenda and the ideas for New Democrats to successfully challenge the conventional political wisdom in America and, in the process, redefine the center of the Democratic Party. From played a prominent role in the 1992 election of President Bill Clinton -- and served as Domestic Policy Advisor to the Clinton transition -- prompting USA Today to write: "The ideas at the crux of the Clinton candidacy were largely drafted by the DLC."

Today, many of the ideas that comprise the core of the Democratic Party's agenda come from work done under From's leadership at the DLC. National service, an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, welfare reform, charter schools, community policing, expanded trade and re-inventing government were all championed by scholars and analysts at the DLC well before becoming part of the Democratic Party's great successes. Today, many leading Democrats from across the nation point to the DLC's brand of politics as a key element of their success.

In 1998, with First Lady Hillary Clinton, From began a dialogue with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other world leaders, and the DLC brand -- known as The Third Way -- became a model for resurgent progressive governments around the globe. In April 1999, he hosted an historic Third Way forum in Washington with President Clinton, Prime Minister Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Prime Ministers Wim Kok of the Netherlands and Massimo D'Alema of Italy."


http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=1131&kaid=86&subid=191