Does This Signal the End of the DLC?

..or the beginning of the end? Today's vote signaled that the Clinton's no longer wield the power of the Dem party with an iron hand. Could this mean that the DLC (Dems who wannabe Repubs)could be starting to lose it's grip on the party? Can we now start getting rid of people like Clinton who shoved good old Repuke things down our throats like "NAFTA". Maybe the party is starting to slip back (gasp) into being something that at least lightly resembles DEMOCRATS!! One can only hope and pray. This party will be a hell of a lot better off if we can finally push these Clinton's and their brand off the stage once and for all!

See Joe Lieberman. They will just go somewhere else.

This was simply Senator Obama ripping out its heart and tossing it into the dumpster on his way to the White House.

Excepting the DLC dead-enders.

But they'll be back, like el Niño. :eyes:

...I'm sick of defending this crap and I won't defend it anymore.

You mean people like Janet Napolitano, Bill Richardson, and Kathleen Sebelius? Yeah, sure, let's toss 'em out.

What a lot of you fail to grasp is that Hillaryland and the DLC are two very different creatures. During the Clinton years, Hillary loyalists and old line party hacks like Ickes constantly feuded with the wonkier DLC types like Bruce Reed.

Not really. They function better when they are "on the outside" just like the neocons.

They don't do well when they actually have to govern.

to knock some sense into. But it'll be a whole lot easier without the Clintons holding so much control.

I support Obama because of a variety of reasons, but that doesn't mean I don't also support more moderate viewpoints. NAFTA isn't a moderate agreement, IMO. It was a Republican creation straight down the line.

The committee truly tried to get answers to some really narrow, some unusual tricky situations that came up this year. It probably won't happen again.

They still wield money and influence. And Rahm, one of their heavyweights, is still the fourth ranking Democrat in the House and chairman of the Democratic Caucus. He still has plenty of allies.

And Obama is not the kind of person to needlessly antagonize them: he will need to build all the support he can. While he may not care for some of them, I'm sure he doesn't despise them as a group like many of us do. He will co-exist with them.

Their only vulnerabilities are at the local level. If they can be beaten in the primaries, they can be got rid of, but they have all the incumbent advantages. And they will almost always be well-financed. Their primary opponents have to out-organize them heavily to have a chance.

There are still many left in the seats of power

The DLC was a reactionary movement to democratic losses. Obama I believe can forge a path to victory that will be more progressive than the DLC,but obama won't be around for ever, and the democrats won't ALWAYS win, which will sow some doubut. And where there is election doubt, there will be DLC... This may however be the peak of their influence for the foreseeable future however

and that's a good thing I think.