Clinton to Direct Creation of Democrats' Agenda

LA Times ^ | 7/25/05 | Ronald Brownstein

[nj26]

The Democratic Leadership Council, an organization of influential party moderates, on Monday named Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., to direct a new initiative to define a party agenda for the 2006 and 2008 elections.

The appointment solidified the identification of Clinton -- once considered a champion of the party's left -- with the centrist movement that helped propel her husband to the White House in 1992. It also continued her effort, which has accelerated in recent months, to present herself as a moderate on issues such as national security, immigration and abortion.

In her new role, Clinton immediately called for a truce between the DLC and liberal elements of the party, which have engaged in a war of words over the Democrats' direction since President Bush won re-election last year.

The DLC has been struggling to maintain the influence in the party it wielded when Bill Clinton held the White House.

Clinton said that she would reach out not only to centrists, but "progressive people from all perspectives" to prepare her blueprint, which is due in one year. But the remarks from Sirota show the challenge of devising a program that attracts broad support across the party.

[ChildOfThe60s]

It is telling that they have to get together and have a pow wow to figure out what they [should] believe in.

An astute member of our unbiased MSM ought to see that & point it out, do you not think? ha, ha ha

[PGalt]

Thanks once again for giving a thread greater context.

[fish hawk]

Calling Howard Dean!!! Howard, where are you? Howard 'second fiddle' Dean, are you home?

[Victor]

I also have an 83 year old Mom, lifelong FDR democrat. I can understand your plight.

The battles at our dinner table are the stuff of esoteric novels and reality TV shows.

I have yet to ask her if she would vote for Hillary. That's coming.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. if you're going to run off the cliff .. might as well be led by the head pig.

[Txsleuth]

We need to have flags and T-shirts with that made up for freepers to wear to political events...2006 and 2008!

T

[Reactionary]

"The appointment solidified the identification of Clinton -- once considered a champion of the party's left -- with the centrist movement that helped propel her husband to the White House in 1992."

It doesn't "solidify" anything other than Mrs. Clinton's duplicitous, lying political game playing.

[lepton]

I never understand why the GOP never calls them out on their real agenda.

Because when they do they sound like raving nuts. Heck, the MSM regularly points out that the Clintons intend to lie to people and present a false image, and praises them for their cleverness.

[lepton]

This is not going to happen. Moderate liberals will go along; but.. the radical left? Non.

I dunno...they got the NOW gang to argue in favor of the "One Free Grope" rule, and to completely reverse their ideas on what comprises sexual harrassment.

[JillValentine]

I've always thought Hillary's fanatical desire for power above all else, and willingness to eliminate anyone who gets in her way, was very Stalin-like.

[lepton]

You don't understand the Clintons. Everyone knows they are liars on most every subject imaginable - even ones they don't have to lie - just they are lying to everyone else.

[lepton]

Hillary does have a problem with the hard-core anti-war groups, but she gets a free pass from the radical pro-abortion feminists and the gay rights activists.

I don't imagine she'll have a problem with the anti-war groups...they'll give her a pass because they know she doesn't mean it.

[kcvl]

Hillary's fanatical desire for power above all else

[lepton]

I know many solid liberals. That is the one person ALL of them have told me that theyWILL NOT vote for.

Principled liberals wouldn't vote for her. Power liberals will (They just want a "victory"). Clueless women will (Women who vote, but have little to no idea what the issues are, but will vote for her because she's sorta female). The haters will. Unfortunately, that and the extremist blocs might be enough.

[Cougar66]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/20050725/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_hillary_wa_1 Is it routine for a news service to put a link to a democrat party website at the bottom of a piece?

[lepton]

I have a customer who is ex-military. He was stationed in the White House during the rein of Hillary. In no uncertain terms he describes Hillary: "She is the meanest person I have ever met. Junkyard dog mean."

Ya think? Just look back at the White House Travel Office debacle. Mr. Bill could have just had them moved to other positions, but they took the time to try to frame them for crimes, just because they were where the Clintons wanted to put their cronies. Pure pointless viciousness.

[JillValentine]

You mean there's actually such a thing as a principled liberal? ;-)

[lepton]

I've always thought Hillary's fanatical desire for power above all else, and willingness to eliminate anyone who gets in her way, was very Stalin-like.

Bill was willing to stomp people who got in his way...Hillary went looking for people to stomp, in her way or not. When you looked at individual cases of the Clinton corruption, for the most part Bill was the enforcer...but Hillary was the one who began it. They were a team, but she was the "visionary."

[lepton]

You mean there's actually such a thing as a principled liberal? ;-)

Yup. There are. One of them helped me understand the Clintons better. Bill Clinton, at least, wasn't about liberalism, he was about power.

Some megalomaniacs want their power to build or construct. The Gettys and the Rockefellers, regardless of how you perceive their tactics, created and left something in the end. ...But the Clintons would be perfectly happy to ride the nation into ruin - knowing that would be the result - as long as they got to be in charge.

[pookie18]

Thanks...added to Today's Toons 7/27/05.