Reply #111: Question for the pro-Dean/anti-DLC crowd here. [View All]

Given: Hillary decided to remain in the Senate
Given: Obama put Dean in charge of healthcare reform

Then: how many of you -- and this is addressed to the pro-Dean/anti-DLC crowd only -- seriously believe that Hillary would not have done everything in her power to destroy healthcare reform?


I use Hillary because she is *the* face of the DLC. But unless you have been locked in solitude the past four years, you have to know that a substantial percentage of the Democrats in the House and Senate consider Howard Dean a bigger enemy than their Republican rivals.

Dean would help Obama a *lot* with the crowd outside the beltway. But Obama has to work inside the beltway. And the merest hint of Dean involvement in anything Obama does will set the DLC off like rabid dogs.

I don't like it. You don't like it. It's a pretty good bet that Dean doesn't like it. But I bet he understands it. It sucks. But the real enemy here is not Obama, it is the DLC.