The founding mission of the DLC was, basically,
to Republicanize the Democratic Party on economic policy. However, what I often find most consistently frustrating about the DLC is their repeated insistence on
Republicanizing the Democratic message:
"It's eerily similar that in '93, the Clinton administration said there was a health care crisis," said Marshall Wittman, a senior fellow at the Democratic Leadership Council. "That's why you hear many Democrats now drawing the line on the question of whether there is a Social Security crisis."
The question of whether or not there is a Social Security crisis? Way to leave an obviously fabricated crisis open to debate DLC. The crisis is so obviously fabricated that at the Republican Party retreat they are openly
trying to change the deadline of the supposed crisis for political gain:
Party leaders and White House officials who gathered at the Greenbrier resort also discussed a new rhetorical twist in their campaign to remake Social Security. In meetings on Friday, Treasury Secretary John W. Snow and Representative Bill Thomas of California, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, discussed redirecting public attention on 2008 as an imminent danger point for the Social Security trust fund because baby boomers will begin retiring, people present said. Even the most dire analyses say the fund will remain solvent for a decade or longer after that.
While the Republicans are openly trying to invent a new deadline for a crisis they are already trying to invent (see also
here), the DLC somehow is still considering whether or not there is a crisis. No wonder DLC affiliated politicians dominate the
Fainthearted Faction. Memo to all involved:
there is no crisis.
Coming up next: the DLC tries to decide whether or not Democratic activists are part of the oppressive liberal elite destroying the common man. Oh, wait, they already said yes. Perhaps MyDD's local DLC member, KYDem could give us some insight to the message struggles of the DLC.
