Constipated Democratic "Moderation" on Iraq on Display in LA Times Article

[BurtWorm]

"Conventional wisdom says that presidential candidates who want to be responsible on this are going to hurt themselves with the angry, impassioned activist left," said Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist Democratic think tank. "But the activist left is out of sync with the American public. Americans don't want to concede this is a total debacle."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-antiwar10jan10,0,580923.story?page=2&coll=la-home-nation

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. The voice of the Republican wing of the Democratic Party

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Tom Paine

[Selatius]

2. The Progressive Policy Institute is a DLC group, I believe.

I generally disagree with most of the DLC and their institute's positions with respect to the economy and--it seems--the idea that being far left is somehow very bad. I mean, far be it from me to tell you that single-payer universal health care is far left in origin (dare I say a socialist invention?) and thus inherently untenable, for example.

[originalpckelly]

3. WOW! That rightwinger publisher is sure doin' a heckuva a job.

[magellan]

4. "Americans don't want to concede this is a total debacle."

Well then they'd better get over themselves.

But it's probably closer to the truth to say the Progressive Policy Institute (a misnomer if ever there was one) doesn't want to concede this is a total debacle. With Dems like that, who needs Republicons?