Posted on 08/24/2007 12:33:59 PM PDT by vadum
The liberal Center for American Progress (CAP) is off to a roaring start. Headed by John Podesta, President Clinton’s White House chief of staff, and funded by George Soros, the four-year-old think tank aspires to be nothing less than a ‘Heritage Foundation’ for America’s left.
CAP sees itself as the intellectual ammunition depot for contemporary liberalism. As liberals become increasingly angry and their rhetoric becomes more and more strident and insulting, CAP, according to an NPR profile, aims “to reinvigorate political thinking and advocacy among Democrats.”......
Given its size and scope...CAP could well be providing personnel and ideas for a “President Clinton 44” or a “President Obama” should Democrats recapture the White House in 2008......
Perhaps CAP’s most important recommendation was a 2006 report calling on U.S. troops to leave Iraq “as part of a balanced global strategy to make Americans safer.” CAP helped Representative John Murtha develop the concept “strategic redeployment,” leftist double-speak for withdrawing troops on a timetable. Six months later came “Strategic Redeployment 2.0,” which underscored the earlier report and spelled out a strategy to have U.S. troops exit Iraq by 2007......
More controversial is Podesta’s recruitment of Morton Halperin to head CAP’s “Security and Peace Initiative.” A veteran denizen of liberal groups, Halperin was in 1993 President Clinton’s failed nominee to be assistant secretary of defense for democracy and peacekeeping. He came under intense fire from intelligence agencies and senators in both parties because of his long history of condemning U.S. covert intelligence activities and his outspoken defense of Phillip Agee, the renegade CIA turncoat.
Halperin has called for dissolving the CIA’s covert career service, criticized the intelligence agency as “the subverter of everyone else’s freedom,” and declared it “an open question” whether it might one day turn to assassinating American citizens......
(Excerpt) Read more at capitalresearch.org ...
Uh ... no. Think Tank on LSD is more like it.
All the efforts at thinking have tanked.
From what little I have seen about all the ideas they can come up with is repackaging semantics and trying to “reframe” the debates by dreaming up new buzzwords and slogans to replace the rancid old ones.
Don’t underestimate the evil these people are capable of; this is a very dangerous and coercive organization.
No. More like enemy infiltrators, or CP-USA crossed with SMERSH.
A think tank on Steroids? I guess that would explain the errational anger, shriveled up testicles and mental illness The Dems have!
I'm glad that this was posted in Front Page News. Maybe FReepers will stop using its material to support their arguments.
Conservative FReepers never used them.
Who is their main brain? The think tank can be no stronger than its strongest thinker, and usually much weaker since the rest of the tank shouts down the strongest thinker.
We got lots of union types on these threads saying things like "I consider myself a social conservative but...".
I’m still chuckling about that one dude (that you jokingly were thinking of paying just to agree with you) that I had to instruct, “you’re using the wrong ammo to shoot at me. . . here, try this caliber.”
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