Posted on 08/30/2009 6:43:24 PM PDT by tlb
PBS's Bill Moyers issued a tough critique of the Democratic Party on Friday night on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher."
Moyers said that "too many Democrats have had their spines surgically removed."
"The problem is the Democratic Party," said Moyers. "This is a party that has told its progressives — who are the most outspoken champions of health care reform — to sit down and shut up.
Moyers said that, over the years, the Democratic Party "has become like the Republican party — deeply influenced by corporate money."
"I think Rahm Emanuel understands that the money for Obama's reelection would come primarily from the health industry, the drug industry and Wall Street, and so he is a corporate Democrat"
"There's a fear that Barack Obama will become the Grover Cleveland of this era," said Moyers. Grover Cleveland was a good man, but he became a conservative Democratic president because he didn't fight the interests. ... I would much rather see Barack Obama be Theodore Roosevelt.
"I think if Obama fought, instead of finessed so much, he stood up and declared for what is really the right thing to do ... I think it would change the atmosphere."
Moyers said that conservatives have dominated the debate over health care lately. "In the last few weeks, the right wing has been winning the debate. How [Obama] lost control of the narrative, I don't understand. Well, yes, I do. He didn't find the right metaphors, as you were just saying, and he didn't speak in simple powerful moral language.
"Here's the party that lost and the conservative movement that was discredited over the last eight years .... They're setting the agenda for a Democratic Party that controls the White House, the Senate and the House. Something's wrong in that."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
And no credit to Sarah for taking control of the debate ?
speaking of tools...was Moyers drunk?
Now Billy Boy has reason to hate everybody
He also lies through his teeth and the people are seeing it.
Yep. The libtards are pissed because Zero is not SLAMMING the American people with their agenda.
Moyers is an idiot - the money for Obowma’s reelection is coming from the same place it came last time, from the muslims in the middle east, $50 dollars at a time.
The only reason the Dems would need a spine like Moyers is to goose-step like him.
> Moyers said that “too many Democrats have had their spines surgically removed.”
How about their brains?
It’s ironic, conservatives hate the GOP for becoming too liberal and liberals hate the DNC for not being socialist enough. It’d be nice if we all just abandoned both parties.
Bill Moyers’ black eyeballs give me the creeps.
The age of the liberal dinosaurs is ending.
Yeah. He's a Stepford drunk.
What is Moyers talking about? Cleveland was an excellent President who refused to give farmers handouts and such. He was probably the last great Democrat.
Bill Moyers is a quintessential elitist commie. He cannot accept the notion that the vast majority of Americans want nothing to do with his elitist, egalitarian schemes. He insists that his ideas must be accepted simply on the basis of his superior intellect. Peasants be damned is his motto.
When intellectual superior beings such as himself are in control, then nirvana will be realized, at least for themselves. Everyone else doesn’t count.
Aren’t you happy that your tax dollars are supporting his enlightened way of thinking?
WaPo: Moyers tried investigating LBJ aides for homosexuality
Here's the story as it originally appeared in the WaPo.
In any case, he's committed the cardinal sin of Leftist Liberals: he's not liberal enough. But, then, NO ONE can be liberal enough for a liberal.
** I wonder if I can post those words together on FR?
Bill: it's time to start getting drunk in Cuba, buddy. The rum is cheap, and it'll really help when you need a hernia operation at one of Fidel's free clinics.
“Now Billy Boy has reason to hate everybody’
Well, at least he is eating his own Marxist pals.
That’s a good thing, no?
A man walked into a very high-tech bar. As he sat down on a stool he noticed that the bartender was a robot. The robot clicked to attention and asked, "Sir, what will you have?"
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The robot clicked a couple of times and mixed the best martini the man had ever had.
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