Uh-oh.......they're startin' to get it...........Maxi-Shields wrote this?.....
Of course, when it's politically expedient, they will screw each and every special interest group in their coalition. Of course, they make it a point to only screw 'em one at a time so as to avoid a "rush to the exits". One group they absolutely will not over even obliquely offend are the abortionists. They're sacred to Democrats.
Perception???? Pretty much undisputed truth if you ask me....
But Shields has always been a partisan, and old habits die hard. Still, his advice to the Democrats is spot on, and they will lack the self-perception to follow it.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "The 'Hard Bigotry' of Incompetence at the NY Times"
Shields only worries about the perception that the Dems are beholden to the special interest groups, not the reality of it. He is like every other Dem. He simply wants to be able to fool the voters long enough so that they can get power.
Again the Bie Lie. African-Americans have been ill served by democrats for over 100 years.
I've always believed that the Democrats so-called "big tent" was getting a little too big for its own good. In their attempts to appeal to so many disparate groups, the Democrats have created coalitions that are often at odds with each other.
How do the Dems continue to appease big labor and claim support for the working class...and at the same time, embrace environmentalist's policies that are often at odds with workers and their jobs. You can already see this split happening as many union people aren't happy with the Democrats and their own leadership.
You could even see some of this divide when Lieberman was chosen as VP. Many black groups...especially the Congressional BC and members of the NAACP, just didn't want to accept a Jewish man at this position. These divisions have become even more apparent with the war and anti-Semitism that is running wild with many of the Dems supporters.
It's ironic that just as the Democrat Party is made of a number of coalitions, so is the Democrat Congress. The "party" that claims to hate labels and to be color-blind, has among it's own congressional members a number of "caucuses," represented by blacks, Hispanics, women, etc. The hypocrisy that these people are going to bring the country together when members of their own party are split among racial and gender lines is a joke.
So Shields has discovered the Democrats have a "special interest" problem? Many of us figured that out many years back. They also have a leftist dingbats problem.
Dang it, Rush promised us they'd never listen to him!
Shields is a Boston Liberal asswipe. After defending Clinton and his band of thieves for eight years he has the nerve to say that today everything is for sale in Washington. Perhaps he forgets the shopping bag full of money that Charlie Trie brought to the WH on behalf of James Riady. Or maybe he forgets the renting out of the Lincoln Bedroom. Or the sale of pardons, ambassadorships and resting places at Arlington. I could go on but what's the use.