The DLC Taps Harold Ford Jr. as Chair

After being asked to head the DLC now that Tom Vilsack has stepped down, Harold Ford Jr. is fawning all over Al From calling the previous DLC work “exemplary”. Exemplary of what? Twelve years of Democratic Party failure? Twelve years of Republican rule, political corruption, raiding the treasury and corporate excess?

I recently remarked to a prominent national Democrat that Harold could thank the progressives for paving the way for Harold’s almost successful campaign for Frist’s senate seat even though many progressive Democrats who supported Harold did not approve of his positions. He looked sideways at me.

I like Harold personally, He's bright, articulate and has a number of things right, but I don't like the past and current DLC of which he is a member. They don’t get it.

It was Howard Dean and the progressive Democrats who opposed the war, raised hell, shook the party by the shoulders and said “wake up!” The DLC, free trading, Clinton fawning, Republican Lite centrists are the ones that were allowing our party’s decline. You know - the ones who wouldn’t stand up to Bush and the Republicans, and who didn’t want Dean as DNC Chairman and then criticized Dean’s 50 state plan. Without the progressives and Howad Dean battling Bush and laying the groundwork, Harold’s campaign wouldn’t have come close. In fact, he probably wouldn’t even have attempted it.

And Harold is saying when he becomes DLC chairman they should put out a booklet similar to a previous DLC publication, “Putting People First”. What a joke! Everyone knows people come last on the DLC’s agenda. DLC members come first, then their friends, and then the corporations, and then the party, and then the people – if at all.

The DLC and that crowd are part of the beltway freeloaders who kiss corporate ass and feed off the system. The DLC is used to being in power, controlling the party and picking the candidates. They don’t like it when someone like Dean shakes their tree. It worries me that Obama will become one of them if he hasn’t already.

And how about the DLC ignoring Tom Vilsack, the most recent DLC Chairman and his presidential run? But then, they know Vilsack can’t win. Vilsack doesn’t expect to win either although he knows he can make a good showing in Iowa. Why not? He’s their governor. He just wants to raise his profile and name recognition by campaigning so he can profit from it in his political afterlife. Additionally, he gets to keep any campaign money not used and he can then wield additional power by doling it out to win favor and make deals.

On the other hand, these people don’t care how thinly veiled their motives and agendas are. Most American are fools and are easily manipulated.

The average Venezuelan peasant probably understands the politics in their nation far better than most Americans understand theirs.