The DLC's Al From rears his ugly head, pens WSJ op-ed against public option

[ProSense]

WHAT IS AL FROM TALKING ABOUT?....

Al From, the founder of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, urging Democratic policymakers to give up on the public option now, to help ensure passage of the rest of the health care reform bill. As one might have guessed, it's an unpersuasive pitch.

In a nutshell, From argues that by pursuing a public plan, Democrats would make it easier for Republican obstructionists "to cloud the prospects for reform," by diverting attention from the rest of the debate and focusing on a public option that "Americans disagree on."

It's hard to know where to start with something like this. Dems should drop the popular idea that would save money and help consumers because Republicans, who can't block reform by themselves anyway, are putting insurance company's interests at the top of their priority list?

Of particular interest, though, was From's specific advice to President Obama. From recommends, among other things:

(M)ake one more effort to bring moderate Republicans along. Transformational reforms, such as civil rights legislation and Medicare in the 1960s, have always been passed with bipartisan majorities. Health-care reform should be no exception. The president promised a post-partisan politics. What better place to forge it than on his most important initiative?

No, no, no. For one thing, the president never "promised a post-partisan politics." Obama assured voters he'd reach out to Republican lawmakers in good faith, and he has. But "post-partisan politics" is a media creation/buzzword. For another, the White House has gone out of its way to try and secure GOP support for reform, but the president's hand has been consistently slapped away.

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[mkultra]

1. what a tool. im surpised we managed to win an election

[Hawkeye-X]

2. The DLC thinks it was Rahm Emanuel (their boy) that got them the win

But it was Dr. Dean's brilliant 50-state strategy that got them the wins..

Now they kicked him out and DLC re-took it - watch them TRY to win without our help.

Hawkeye-X

[ProSense]

4. "DLC re-took it " What?

The DLC is dead.

[PassingFair]

14. Does THIS look like DEAD to you?

http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=86&subid=85&contentid=254896

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The New Team

"Obama made a big promise that he was going to transcend the old politics and create a post-partisan politics. The first test of that was to reach out and appoint people to the Cabinet that moved beyond party, and I think he has done that."

-- DLC Founder and CEO Al From in Politico.

# Rahm Emanuel
# Hillary Rodham Clinton
# Janet Napolitano
# Lawrence H. Summers
# Tom Vilsack
# Ken Salazar
# Ron Kirk
# Kathleen Sebelius

[polichick]

5. +1

[ProSense]

6. To get an idea of just how dead they are:

vist this site

[Me.]

7. You're Absolutely Right

Rahm and Schumer kept giving Dean hell because he insisted on spending DNC money on the 50 state, rather than backing the losers Rahm personally hand picked.

[ProSense]

10. That's one of the things I like about Dean:

He never sits around conceding defeat to a dead organization.

Al From writes a ridiculously illogical op-ed = the DLC took over?

How do you explain that the House bill includes and has the vote for a public option?

How do you explain that the HELP bill includes a public option and has the support of at least 53 Senators?

How do you explain that 30 Senators support an even stronger public option?

Al From = Loser

[mkultra]

13. fantasy.

[Arkana]

3. If anyone needed proof that Al From is a Republican this piece should do it.

[Armstead]

8. DLC -- Dickhead Loser Conservatives

The Wall Street Journal -- which is now the upscale Fox News -- is the perfect place for Al to be opioniong.

[Sinti]

9. Desperately trying to regain relevance - I'm embarrassed for him n/t

[bertman]

11. I recced this so all DU'ers will be aware of the duplicitous nature of the DLC and will

hopefully send them angry letters and NO MONEY EVER AGAIN.

These DLC'ers are the ones who kept good Democratic candidates OUT OF THE RACES against hardcore right-wingers in South Florida. What is up with that? And now, the executor of that treacherous operation, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, is one of the rising stars that the DLC trots out of network teevee every chance it gets.

Email them, write them, call them and tell them that we want PROGRESSIVE POLICIES not Republican policies.

[OHdem10]

12. Al From, the maintainer of Aristocrisy.

Leader of DLC who honestly admits he likes the idea of
having "Likely Voters" determine outcomes in this country.

Who are "Likely Voters" people who can pretty much be depended
on to show up at the polls because they have a stake in the outcome.
Rich to comfortably well off better educated and you guessed it
heavily Republican.

Think about it. Now do you see why Centrists, Blue Dogs and
DLCers begin to squirm at the thought of any legislation that
does not appeal to Business and Upper Classes.

[Romulox]

15. More Good Cop/Bad Cop designed to make a watered down PO look like a victory. nt

[Blue_Tires]

17. +1

[ProSense]

18. Secretly From is for a weak public option?

From is an asshole who is trying to preserve the status quo. He's probably hoping health reform fails altoghether.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

16. Good lord, just when you thought --

the jackass had fallen into oblivion. :eyes:

Someone hand me my whack-a-mole stick.