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Their donor list looks like a who's-who of the worst mainstream corporate offenders in America.

I track senator votes as a hobby. With a few exeptions (Kerry, Clinton..for the most part), the DLC members of the senate have a long and consistent history of scuttling Democratic efforts at opposing the Bush agenda. Important matters like Alito, otehr right-wing judges, bankruptcy bill, tax cuts for the rich, the Patriot Act,removal of the right to class action lawsuits, etc. etc.

When someone says "one or two issues" are the sins of a particular DLC Democrat (Save Kerry and Clinton, there are 17 more of them), they are not keeping track of the votes. Most (11) of these senators vote with the Democrats less than 50% of the time on important issues. Kerry and Clinton are anomalies for the DLC, and should not be considered representative.

Landrieu, Pryor, Nelson (Florida), Nelson (Nebraska), Carper, and Leiberman do.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Zodiak%20Ironfist

I have come to the conclusion that the big tent of the Democratic party should not be so big on the right that we have these characters as such a prominent constituency in the party. They are not transparent, they have crappy voting records (NOT "moderate, but right wing in many cases), and Democratic activists are on to them.

There are a couple of fairly right wing Democrats that are not DLC (Byrd, Biden), but by far, the worst we have are all members of this nefarious, shadowy organization (if you will not publish your membership or your donors, you are shadowy..what have they to hide?).