ENRON DEMOCRATS (liberals eat their own. Good read!)

The Nation ^ | William Greider

[Shermy]

BTTT.

Good read. Lots to learn whatever the party.

BTW, what's "liberal-labor"? Most establishment liberals couldn't care less about working people.

[madison46]

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[100%FEDUP]

Too bad we will NEVER EVER see any of this info on ANY of the major network newscasts!

[ikka]

The problem is that the author is assuming that there are some Democrats that have integrity, that is, just a few of the Democrats are "Enron Democrats".

They are ALL Enron Democrats.

[STARWISE]

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ARTICLE!!!! Please pass on to those who may have missed it and got just as nauseous as I am. BTT!!!!

[LarryLied]

A brief intermission in which to enjoy the dissent within the Democrat party before we start in again on Republicans.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

That distinction doesn't help Democrats much. "People are reluctant to make the arguments that need to be made for the Democratic agenda," one of them said. "They don't want to hurt Terry."

Translation: "We're hypocrites."

(Thanks for the ping.)

[Sicvee]

It's great isn't it? Here we are complaining about Bush not being a conservative and Greider's complaining that the powerful Dems are not liberals. I like Greider for his basic populism. I like capitalism also, but these crooks at the top get away with too much.

[driftless]

I realize Greider is outraged about those nasty Dems who happen to like capitalism, but so what? At least the stinking, hypocritical Dems like Daschle realize where their bread is buttered unlike socialists like Greider who would like to tear down the entire free-enterprise edifice because of the actions of a few corrupt corporate greedheads like the Enron scum.

That doesn't mean that I like the Daschle types who mislead the gullible Dem voters who think they represent all that's decent and good in America while constantly screaming that those nasty conservative Republicans are the worst. But conservatives have to learn to distinguish between your ordinary run-of-the-mill avaricious and corrupt Dem pols and the commie symps and anti-American trash who are members of The Progressive Caucus. There is a difference. A pox on both greedy, hypocritical Dems and commie "saints" like Greider and other "progressives".

[sleavelessinseattle]

This is great grit! Thanks for the Ping!

[Rustynailww]

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[davidosborne]

BTTT

[Liz]

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[Liz]

Senator Joe Lieberman, as chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, presides over hearings into what-went-wrong with the air of sorrowful piety that is his specialty. "Gatekeepers weren't keeping the gate, watchdogs weren't watching," he lamented. He neglects to mention that he is one of the faulty watchdogs and also a leading gatekeeper who blocked the timely reform of corporate finance.

The Senator has a hypocrisy problem. He frequently sermonizes on the moral failings of others, including other public figures. Meanwhile, he has shilled vigorously, sometimes venomously, for the very players who are new icons of corruption -- major auditing firms, corporate executives who cashed stock options early while investors took a bath and, especially, those self-inflating high-tech companies in Silicon Valley that drove the stock-market bubble. As a New Democrat, Lieberman held the door for their escapades.

A New Democrat dressed in the same shabby Old Democrat clothing.

[ChaseR]

"...in which to enjoy the dissent within the Democrat party before we start in again on Republicans."

- good post Larry.

[hobbes1]

WOW!!!!!! The Nation comes across with a rare streak, of, dare I say It????? integrity ???

[Tijeras_Slim]

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[ForGod'sSake]

BUMP for later read.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Great find! Here's my vote for "Understatement of the Year":

"The Senator [Lieberman] has a hypocrisy problem."