Reply #64: FUCK the hideous, disrespectful DLC !! please read this ...

[welshTerrier2]

fuck the DLC ... i hope moderates and lefties read this and distance themselves from the DLC ... they should not be in control of the Democratic Party ... left and center will have their disagreements, but the DLC has been and will continue to be a destructive force in our party ...

the source of much of the following comes from this article that's available on the DLC's website:
http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=251439&kaid=131&subid=192

first of all, the DLC put political considerations ahead of considering whether invading Iraq was insane and immoral ... in response to Kucinich's call to bring the troops home from Iraq comes this little gem from the DLC:

But Kucinich also reflects a persistent if small faction in the party that helps reinforce Republican claims that Democrats simply cannot be trusted with military leadership or with vigorous defense of our national interests.

is supporting bush's policy that led to losing thousands of young Americans, alienating the rest of the world, bankrupting our treasury, killing more than 100,000 Iraqis, threatening global peace in a totally failed military escapade going to instill confidence that Democrats can lead on international issues ???

and fuck the DLC and the disrespect they showed for those of us "baby boomers" who were right that bush lied and that Saddam had no WMD and was NOT A THREAT to the U.S. ... and to suggest that people protested because they were nostalgic and had fond memories of the good old Vietnam days is an outrage ... here's what the fucking DLC had to say on this subject:

Some aging baby boomers may continue to view every military conflict as a reprise of the big war of their youth, and some politicians may opportunistically offer them a sort of battleground reenactment of the protests they fondly remember. But for the rest of us, the Vietnam War is long over, and it's time to reassert Democratic internationalism for a new era.

and look at what these jackasses believe is, and I quote them here, "every failed or outdated lefty idea" ... they used this phrase in response to the following ideas proposed by Dennis Kucinich:

Come home and establish a living wage.... Come home and provide single payer, guaranteed health care for the forty-one million Americans who suffer illness without relief.... Come home and provide guaranteed social security for generations to come without privatization and without extending the retirement age, which would be devastating for minorities.... Come home and make non-violence an organizing principle within our society.

is this what the Democratic Party should be opposed to ??? an American works hard all day and still can't make enough money to move above the poverty line? we should oppose finding a way to provide healthcare to the 41 million Americans who have no healthcare?? we should not support social security and resist attempts to privatize it??? and we should not embrace the non-violence teachings of Gandhi and Martin Luther King???? i think the neo-cons would use exactly the same description of these policies that the DLC used: "failed and outdated lefty ideas" ... no wonder so many call the DLC republican-lite ... do moderates disagree with the DLC on these issues ??? because I don't think of them as lefty ideas at all ... these ideas sound like what the Democratic Party once was and hopefully will be again ... the bold new direction the DLC envisions has built us into a minority party ...

it's time to throw the bastards out of power ...