Progressives In Crisis: The Democrats' Lobbyist-Industrial Complex

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Progressives In Crisis: The Democrats' Lobbyist-Industrial Complex

Brent Budowsky
Fmr. legislative aide
Posted: May 4, 2010 01:01 PM



Dick Gephardt and Greg Craig had a price and special interests paid it. Therein lies the tale of a Democratic Party that has blown one of the great realigning landslides in political history, and stands on the brink of losing enough seats in Congress to destroy any hope of the change that voters demanded in the elections of 2006 and 2008.

Gephardt is a man I once believed could have been a great president himself. Craig is a man who has done much over many years for the values that make our country great, and was treated shamefully and shabbily by President Obama and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel during his recent removal as White House counsel.

The fact that Gephardt and Craig could make such runs for the gold reminds us that what should have been a historic moment of great national change in a presidency that could have been reminiscent of Roosevelt and Kennedy has become the latest shame of business as usual in Washington. It is the latest proof that even the best and brightest of the progressive insiders are insiders first, progressives last, when the big money beckons.

The greatest threat to the Democratic Party and progressivism in America is not Sarah Palin. It is not the tea party right. It is not the Republican Party. It is not Rush Limbaugh. It is not Fox News.

The greatest threat to the Democratic Party and progressivism in America is the lobbyist-industrial complex that always obstructs true change, always seeks to destroy the greatest programs for reform, and always poisons and corrupts whatever it touches with the corrosive stench of money that buys government and greed that destroys change.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brent-budowsky/progressives-in-crisis-th_b_562811.html

[NJmaverick]

1. This writer is a JOKE, a Hillary Clinton hating joke

here are the headlines of some of his other articles

* Hillary's Plan To Elect McCain And A Right Wing Supreme Court

* The Hillary Clinton Slush Fund: Dirty Tactics, Dirty Money

* What Hillary Clinton and George Bush Have in Common

[secondwind]

2. thanks for the tip.

[laststeamtrain]

3. BB's an 'insider' with a controversial POV. He's inconvenient for your agenda, so...

shout him down!

I'm not sure anybody but you takes you as seriously as you do.

[NJmaverick]

4. More like you will use the most vile of people if it further's your agenda

as for who is taken seriously it most certainly isn't you.

[laststeamtrain]

5. "as for who is taken seriously it most certainly isn't you." Who've you checked with? I want names.

[CLANG]

6. Anyone can help me further my agenda

My agenda one of goodwill . Anyone that furthers that agenda is doing good. We need all the help we can get.

[swilton]

7. The Democrots Have Shot Themselves in the Foot