[PAA-Discuss] 'No Labels' Political Group Aims to Combat Nation's 'Hyper-Partisanship'

Sun Dec 12 11:45:57 EST 2010

sounds like this is coming from the Office of Manufacturing Dissent

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'No Labels' Political Group Aims to Combat Nation's 'Hyper-Partisanship'_

Well, that seems nice on the surface, but it also looks like a list of
political insiders who might feel as if their voices have been drowned out
by the Tea Party's current domination of mainstream-media-attention.

"...Mark McKinnon, an Austin-based Republican political adviser who is one
of the group's founders,..."

"Austin-based Republican"? Doesn't that sound like a description of Karl
Rove? Rove has been critical of the Teabaggers as if they were stealing
his thunder, and has been going around starting new 401 groups, largely to
take advantage of the "free money" Supreme Court ruling.

"We are not the tea party, and we are not MoveOn,'' said McKinnon, who
worked in the campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain.

Sounds like the same "fair & balanced" remark that Jon Stewart made when
he suggested that Olberman & Maddow were in the same problem list as Fox
Noise, to which Olberman replied something like "exposing corruption is
not the same thing as participating in it."

"...marquee names including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, an
independent [really? Independant, compared to what?]; retiring Democratic
Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana [conservative blue dog]; Democratic Sen. Kristen
Gillibrand of New York; former Republican congressman and TV personality
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC's "Morning Joe' [GOP mouthpiece]; and Los Angeles
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat.
 ....there is an inescapable connection to the Clintons. Several worked in
Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns and in his administration. Some
also worked in Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Nancy Jacobson, is a longtime fundraiser, creator of the Women's
Leadership Forum and well-known Washington hostess. Jacobson, a political
science major at Syracuse who earned her political stripes in Gary Hart's
failed presidential campaign in 1984, has worked for Evan Bayh for 15
years, was an adviser in the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and
finance chair of the Democratic National Committee and Democratic
Leadership Council under President Clinton."

She's a part of the DLC? They're the people who steered the Dem Party into
"Republican-Lite" by crying that the Dems cannot compete with the GOP
without corporate cash - which is kinda like the police saying they must
become heroin addicts to keep up with the heroin addicts.

"... John Avlon, the author of "Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is
Hijacking America"; Kiki McLean, a former senior adviser to Hillary
Clinton's presidential campaign; Lisa Borders, the president of the
Atlanta City Council; and Bill Galston, a domestic policy adviser to
President Bill Clinton, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and
director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the School
of Public Policy of the University of Maryland."

On the same website is an article titled "Liberal Democrats Livid over
Obama Tax compromise". Personally, I don't see why that makes anyone
"liberal". It's a stupid policy that further buries the national budget in
debt (to China) and is, in substance, a complete give-away to the
billionaires in both the GOP & DLC with only an insulting token crumb
tossed to working class Americans.

Why should such people be labeled as "liberals" - maybe because that's
what Faux News is calling us. If their language is the same as the
labeling on Fox then how far from Fox could they be?

Remember, the Tea Party was started by well-funded insiders of the GOP
working out of conservative think tanks who then let go of the leash &
encouraged Fox, CNN et al to call it "a grassroots movement". Why
shouldn't we be watching for the same astro-turf as the basis of this one?

Blackwater Security, an illegal private army guilty of random murders
everywhere they go, changed their name to Xe when the name "Blackwater"
was being spoken too often in the mainstream media in association with
criminal activity. Is it really so difficult to see the "rebranding" in
the Republican and Democratic Parties? Rebranding is a common & popular
corporate strategy whenever an existing brand has been associated with
negative feelings, as have both wings of the dominant party.

I seem to recall that there is a scripture in the Bible that warns "the
devil will appear to you in a pleasing form", so prepare to bend over,
drop your pants and apply vaseline. Just the same, I will be curious to
see further stories of this just to see if anyone can prove me wrong. I
hope so, I'm getting tired of being cynical AND right.

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