Posted on 02/07/2011 1:28:11 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Democratic Leadership Council will fold - Ben Smith: February 07, 2011
The Democratic Leadership Council, the iconic centrist organization of the Clinton years, is out of money and could close its doors as soon as next week, a person familiar with the plans said Monday.
The DLC, a network of Democratic elected officials and policy intellectuals had long been fading from its mid-'90s political relevance, tarred by the left as a symbol of "triangulation" at a moment when there's little appetite for intra-party warfare on the center-right. The group tried -- but has failed -- to remake itself in the summer of 2009, when its founder, Al From, stepped down as president. Its new leader, former Clinton aide Bruce Reed, sought to remake the group as a think tank, and the DLC split from its associated think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute.
But Reed left the DLC last year himself to serve as Vice President Joe Biden's chief of staff, leaving Ed Gresser, a trade expert, to lead the group in the interim. Since then the board "hasn't been able to find someone who wanted to come on in a permanent capacity," a person familiar with the group's woes said, with the central problem the difficulty of raising money for a Democratic group that isn't seen as an ally of the White House.
Gresser declined to comment on the DLC's future, and referred a call to From, who didn't immediately respond to a message left with an assistant.
The DLC is already showing signs of disrepair.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
They were bluffing anyway.
Soon to be replaced by the Progressive Leadership Council............
The democrats have a LEADERSHIP council?
I never would have guessed that in million years...
Meanwhile...the last of “conservative” Dems in the South, especially Alabama are moving into the GOP.
The Dems are a completely left-liberal group.
They don’t realize they simply floated around the word “progressive” on behalf of CommuslimAnarch, Inc., who seeks the destruction of all of them as well as us. I mean really, what does a third-world anarchist want with the Clintonistas ?
Do you think they’ll ever understand that they’re thought of by their allies as useful, expendable, idiots ?
Oxymoron of the month: Democratic Leadership
Another one bites the dust
What did this group ever do except provide employment to a bunch of slimy politicians? I challenge anyone to come up with a single real achievement by this group.
May all the other democrat organizations follow their leadership example and fold too.
I guess there is no room in the Democrat big tent for people not towing the far left wing talking points.
No moderates left in the Dem Party leadership.
Hypocrisy died but no one cried.
Precisely. It was nothing less than an exercise in how the rats must lie better about pushing their Euro-socialist agenda. This "Council" was the rat equivalent of the RINOs' "Tuesday Club", except the purpose of the RINOs' Tuesday Club was to lie better about helping the rats push their Euro-socialist agenda.
This was supposed to be Bayh’s platform to the White House. He never caught on at that level, and in fact, they became a house organ of Hillary! in prep for 2008. We all know how well that went. They are the nadir of irrelevant.
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party.
The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”
- Norman Thomas
The goal of socialism is communism - Uncle Joe
This video ties up all the pieces:
http://agendadocumentary.com
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