No surprise from the DLC on Rove

if the Democrats obsess on him and he is innocent of the charges, he could re-emerge even stronger. If he or another member of the Administration is indicted, however, it will be devastating and the Democrats will have little to do with it.

Meanwhile, according to the latest polls, America views both the Republicans and the Democrats with disdain. Since the Republicans control power, they will probably be hurt more than the Democrats by Washington’s growing unpopularity. But, the donkey doesn’t necessarily benefit when Americans believe that they are also out of touch with their concerns.

The point is that the Democrats can’t merely be the party of “no” – or “we hate Karl”. While we are seething with our justifiable anger, the Republican Chairman is making serious overtures to the African-American community. And what kind of effective out reach is the Democratic Party making to groups that have been estranged from the party in recent years? (THE DLC DIRECTIVES ARE AND AL FROM ARE THE FUCKING REASON WHY THESE “GROUPS” HAVE BEEN “ESTRANGED FROM THE PARTY IN RECENT YEARS” IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!)

The politics of scandal do not always pay off for the opposition party. In the 1988 campaign, Iran-contra did not doom an incumbent Veep with ties to the scandal. And Democrats actually made gains in 1998 in the midst of the Lewinsky frenzy.

Surely the donkey should be pursue Rove, but Democrats should not be consumed with him. (OH REALLY… I WONDER WHAT DOES WITTMAN, A REPUBLICAN CHRISTIAN COALITION FUNDAMENTALIST SUGGEST WE STUPID DEMOCRATS DO INSTEAD…? CONFIRM GONZALES TO THE SCOTUS, OR PERHAPS HE WOULD BE HAPPIEST IF WE JUST ALL ROLLED OVER DIED…THAT WOULD MAKE HIS LIFE MUCH EASIER THAN KEEPING UP THIS CHARADE THAT HE AND AL FROM ARE  REMOTELY INTERESTED IN THE WELFARE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY)

Lieberman has a long record of hostility toward affirmative action that even his liberal apologists in the Democratic Party cannot hide. Back in 1995, when Lieberman took over the DLC, he declared, “You can’t defend policies that are based on group preferences as opposed to individual opportunities, which is what America has always been about.” Lieberman embraced California’s Proposition 209 in 1996, which outlawed affirmative action programs in that state. When President Clinton, after months of hesitation, finally put forward the formulation that affirmative action programs ought to be “mended, not ended,” Lieberman led the opposition within the Democratic Party. The DLC’s Progressive Policy Institute issued a report criticizing Clinton’s position, and called for abolishing it for government hiring and contracting, and making it voluntary in private business.