Can this be? Dems moving left!??!

[BayCityProgressive]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0831-04.htm

Hopefully we see a revitalization of Labor in this country. The Right hates John Sweeney because he is openly socialist though so I don't know how far his initiatives in congress will be.

[poskonig]

1. Lieberman sounds more like a Democrat lately too.

We'll see how he sounds during the debate on Thursday however.

Regardless if he wins, Howard Dean has been the best thing for this party in decades.

[BayCityProgressive]

2. I disagree

I don't think that dean is bad. I just think the people who should be congragulated are the New Left. The Left wing has been re-organizing itself and is pushing it's agenda more than ever. BTW a Workers' Rights Caucus sounds great!

[lcordero]

3. I don't think that they are going to hate him too much

They have accepted more amendments to bills from Bernie Sanders than from any Democrat.

[BayCityProgressive]

4. Isn't the Progressive Party

in Vermont a socialist leaning party created by supporters of Sanders? I know they have a few members in the state legislature.

[burr]

5. Nope, it's drifting to the right.

Only one candidate supports a plan that would enact comprehensive national healthcare, only one candidate supports cuts in military spending while opposing the Patriot Act, only two or three of the the nine candidates did not support the war in Iraq, and only three of the nine candidates would completely repeal shrub's tax cuts.

In 1992 4 of the 5 candidates opposed the Gulf War, all supported manditory national healthcare covering everyone, all supported substantial cuts in defense spending to reverse the trend of deficit spending, and most of the candidates not only supported reversing parts of the Reagan tax cuts...but two supported tax increases in addition to this. Clinton, while not publically supporting tax increases, recognized they would be necessary in 1993.

Dean, Kucinich, and Gephardt are hardly socialists. They are just seeking to return some sanity in a national party..which has been playing the role of the chameleon over the past eight years.