The battle is forming - its DFA versus DLC [View All]

Howard Dean and his group Democracy for America represent the upstart effort to reform the Democratic Party to bring it back to serving its base of supporters. The resistance is coming from the establishment candidates who are entrenched in the depths of Beltway politics as represented by the DLC. As evidence listen to the comments of Joe Biden when he says Dean does not speak for me. You know who these folks are. And yes, my friends, Ms. Hilary Clinton is one of them. The DLCers are feeling threatened right now by the in-roads made by Dean. On the one hand they love the fact that he is a money raising machine, on the other hand they fear that it is money and support that will not wind up going to them. For all of us activists this is going to be a battle we must keep are eye on. As I see it we have two choices. Either we support Dean's efforts to reform the Party, or we allow those who are currently in power continue to hoodwink us into believing that they represent our interests and are an opposition party.