You've got to hand it to the DLC. They've got this triangulation thing down. How else can you explain an article like this:
Ideologues and Election Results
Me thinks this is just the appetizer. The main course will be served by the MSM, aided and abetted by DLC talking heads. Their meme? Its all the Liberals fault.
Imagine that. Elect a President, give him signicficant majorities in the House and Senate, watch in jaw dropping horror as said President and said majorities enact virtually the inverse of what you thought you elected them for, then get blamed when the walls come down.
Thank you, sir, may I please have another...
Progressives need flank protection. Not from the Teabag Brigade, but from a closer and perhaps more sinister threat. The DLC. You know, the folks who have given us NAFTA, GATT, Telecom, Patriot Acts, AUMF-Iraq, Banctrupcy Bill, TARP and Joe Lieberman.
Has it come to us yet that the DLC is our version of PNAC? Bob Rubin as Richard Perle, Larry Summers as Paul Wofowitz. Pick your own Don Rumsfeld. A large part of the electoral disasters for Republicans in '06 and '08 can be laid at the feet of the Neo-Cons and their wretched, twisted polices as implemented by Bush and his crony Congress.
The question can now be asked, are we headed down a Neo-lib road to a similar fate? If so, will Progressives allow themselves to be blamed for the train wreck?