Another entry about the DLC- or GOP-Lite.
Hillary Clinton Wants To Become A Republican This is why I think this forum is so important. We have to remember to have the courage of our convictions. Every time we do this Americans look at us as Republicans but without the spine to go all the way.
This is just bullshit. One of my friends works for a man who tells his employees that "we can't be like them. We'll just be a worse them, Let's be a better us."
We're Democrats. Let's be Democrats then
Clinton emphasized her commitment to creating "a unified, coherent strategy focused on eliminating terrorists wherever we find them" and "improving homeland defense." She envisioned a future society in which "we've put more troops in uniform, we've equipped them better, and we've trained them to face today's stress, not yesterday's." In calling for more troops, she repeated the main criticism that Democrats have directed against Bush's handling of the war in Iraq--that not enough forces were committed to guarantee victory.
The manifesto reads like it was written by Pat Buchanan
Clinton also endorsed DLC ideas such as welfare reform, implemented by her husband, which has deprived millions of people of government assistance. She called for fiscal responsibility and repeated certain "cultural" themes designed to neutralize opposition from the extreme right. She urged passage of an "enforceable international ban on human cloning" and sounded notes from her recent campaign attacking violent video games. She called for all Americans to come together on the basis of "our faith in God and our shared values," while pledging to "reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions by promoting family planning and by strengthening our systems of adoption and foster care."
In the lead article, "How America Can Win Again," Al From, the DLC's founder and CEO, and Bruce Reed, its president, voiced full support for the Bush administration's escalation of militarism under the pretext of a "war on terror." After September 11, the pair wrote, "for a brief, shining moment, country--not party--was all that mattered.... Four years later, we have won some important victories against terror and tyranny, in Afghanistan and Iraq. But the duty we owe to the victims of Sept. 11--and to the cause of freedom--has not been fulfilled."
In the event of a Democratic electoral victory, the war would not merely continue; it would escalate. The authors criticized the administration for having "failed to arm us economically and militarily for a war that could go on for decades.... Iraq isn't the last war we'll have to fight, and we need a bigger army." They called for 100,000 additional troops in the US military--a demand that was repeated at the convention itself. This echoes a recent bill introduced by Senate Democrats, including Clinton and former vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman, for an additional 80,000 troops.
Honestly. This is like having the Democratic Party run by the Reno 911 Sherriff's Department. It show sthat our ideas are not vigorous enough. Our ideas should be nuanced versions of Republican ideals.
Not me. I believe in National Health Care. I think our schools are entirely obsolete. I believe in taxing to pay for wwhat you expect. I believe in Social Security and Medicare. I think we should withdraw from Iraq and stop calling for War on Terror, War on Poverty, War on Drugs. You can't defeat Terrorism. You defeat terrorists. You don't defeat terrorists by creating new terrorists.
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