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CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
5. I got it. One group is republican and the other group is Republican...
Sun Dec 8, 2013, 08:14 PM
Dec 2013

The republican is Third Way and the Republican is No Labels....right?

 

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)
8. No, there are no republicans anymore. They're all "independents and libertarians", now.
Sun Dec 8, 2013, 08:29 PM
Dec 2013

The people still holding office are the last republicans in America...

Salviati

(6,008 posts)
10. Bingo, note that these are distinct from the republicans who are embarassed to call themselves...
Sun Dec 8, 2013, 08:42 PM
Dec 2013

... republicans, those are now "libertarians".

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
11. Third Way, which seemed to be ascendant, recently had a big defeat in their repudiation of
Sun Dec 8, 2013, 08:48 PM
Dec 2013

Elizabeth Warren...boy, was that a comedown! Third Way is the way that is on the wrong side of everything...these people are shameless...

 

Marr

(20,317 posts)
6. They're essentially the same thing, but designed for two different groups.
Sun Dec 8, 2013, 08:22 PM
Dec 2013

Third Way/DLC is a home for the Democratic Party's corporate shills who claim to be acting in the name of "bipartisanship", while No Labels is a home for Republican corporate shills who claim to be acting in the name of "bipartisanship".

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
7. It seems to me to be a couple of parties for consultants to the political campaigns of certain
Sun Dec 8, 2013, 08:27 PM
Dec 2013

politicians who no longer have a job on each side...right?

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
9. You got it. They are both special interest groups
Sun Dec 8, 2013, 08:35 PM
Dec 2013

full of 'nobodies and has-beens' determined to destroy the middle class by any means necessary. The call themselves the 'vital middle' or some such crap...yet are nothing but a gang of charlatans working for paymasters. Lapdogs waiting at the end of the table for scraps from their masters. What their masters hate, they hate.

You know, like how it has always been...minus such overt hatred for the working class and the poor.

IOW, they got tired of things being merely hard for the working class and decided things should be close to impossible. For our own good of course.

TheKentuckian

(25,026 posts)
13. None of consequence. Same goes for blue dogs, the DLC, and New Democrats
Sun Dec 8, 2013, 10:01 PM
Dec 2013

It is all Turd Way, shit that needs flushing.

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