CAFTA: DLC Stabs Democrats in the Back...by David Sirota

http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1C148B00-B99A-67B4-D0CEE576298A99FE
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As Usual The
Beltway-brain-rot insiders at the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC)
have once again stabbed Democrats in the back, this time releasing a
report defending the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in
an effort to help President Bush attract enough peel-off Democratic
votes to pass this corporate-written sell out. I am on book deadline
right now so I don't have enough time today to go into all the
reasons that CAFTA is bad, except to say look at the links below. I
also don't have enough time to go into how this just once again
proves the DLC exists to help Corporate America corrupt the
Democratic Party. But make no mistake about it: the DLC is doing
everything it can to undermine House Democrats, who are trying to
stand up for America's middle class and stop this corporate-written
atrocity. As if the DLC is just an arm of the Bush White House, the
organization timed its CAFTA report perfectly to coincide with the
President's final push for the legislation. Despite the DLC's
pathetic, transparent rhetoric about wanting to "bring a spirit of
radical pragmatism" to the debate, what the DLC is showing is that it
is an organization devoted to urging Democrats to sell their souls to
the highest bidder. That may sell well with the DLC's corporate
funders in Washington, D.C., but out here in the heartland, that kind
of gutless behavior only hurts the Democratic Party over the long run.
Sources: DLC times pro-CAFTA report to help Bush undermine Democrats:
http://www.ppionline.org/documents/CAFTA_0715.pdf
{http://www.ppionline.org/documents/CAFTA_0715.pdf} Why CAFTA is a
travesty that will hurt the middle class:
http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=ECBCFBB4-C55A-4A27-B9B06C6ED328AA7B
{http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=ECBCFBB4-C55A-4A27-B9B06C6ED328AA7B}
http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=A2F5551E-EADB-3121-E2AB8B252582D2DB
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http://www.house.gov/sherrodbrown/cafta.htm
{http://www.house.gov/sherrodbrown/cafta.htm}
http://www.citizen.org/trade/cafta/
{http://www.citizen.org/trade/cafta/} DLC has always existed to help
Corporate America corrupt the Democratic Party:
http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/7/dreyfuss-r.html
{http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/7/dreyfuss-r.html} DLC report
coincides with Bush's final push for CAFTA:
http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2005/07/nc-workers-not-buying-cafta.asp
{http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2005/07/nc-workers-not-buying-cafta.asp}

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--Not the Elite--
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Who is Congressman Bernie Sanders?

Read this article and watch the short video clips:

http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/04/who-is-bernie-sanders.html

...on CAFTA today was that it would create a 3rd world middle class, so they won't move illegally to the U.S.

Lou Dobbs was too irate to even respond after playing the clips. He just sat there seething, staring at the camera, for several seconds, saying absolutely nothing, letting the idiocy of what Bush had just said sink in good and hard.

More journalists should take that approach, methinks.

Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack replaces Evan Bayh as head of the DLC

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1629601&mesg_id=1629601

love CAFTA because their masters love CAFTA.

Personally I think outsourcing jobs, tax revenue, and pollution to people who can't protect themselves from neocolonialism is outside the tradition of the Democratic party.

But then I am just a lifelong democrat voter not one of the elite chosen by Corporate boards to pretend to represent the masses.

Don't be surprised when dems don't vote for you as some of us are more than a little sick of the "better than" argument. You are destroying the party. GO AWAY!