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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> discuss-bounces@paa-tx.org
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<P><FONT size=2>'No Labels' Political Group Aims to Combat Nation's
'Hyper-Partisanship'_<BR><BR>Well, that seems nice on the surface, but it also
looks like a list of<BR>political insiders who might feel as if their voices
have been drowned out<BR>by the Tea Party's current domination of
mainstream-media-attention.<BR><BR>"...Mark McKinnon, an Austin-based Republican
political adviser who is one<BR>of the group's
founders,..."<BR><BR>"Austin-based Republican"? Doesn't that sound like a
description of Karl<BR>Rove? Rove has been critical of the Teabaggers as if they
were stealing<BR>his thunder, and has been going around starting new 401 groups,
largely to<BR>take advantage of the "free money" Supreme Court
ruling.<BR><BR>"We are not the tea party, and we are not MoveOn,'' said
McKinnon, who<BR>worked in the campaigns of George W. Bush and John
McCain.<BR><BR>Sounds like the same "fair & balanced" remark that Jon
Stewart made when<BR>he suggested that Olberman & Maddow were in the same
problem list as Fox<BR>Noise, to which Olberman replied something like "exposing
corruption is<BR>not the same thing as participating in it."<BR><BR>"...marquee
names including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, an<BR>independent
[really? Independant, compared to what?]; retiring Democratic<BR>Sen. Evan Bayh
of Indiana [conservative blue dog]; Democratic Sen. Kristen<BR>Gillibrand of New
York; former Republican congressman and TV personality<BR>Joe Scarborough of
MSNBC's "Morning Joe' [GOP mouthpiece]; and Los Angeles<BR>Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa, a Democrat.<BR> ....there is an inescapable connection to the
Clintons. Several worked in<BR>Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns and in his
administration. Some<BR>also worked in Hillary Clinton's presidential
campaign.<BR>Nancy Jacobson, is a longtime fundraiser, creator of the
Women's<BR>Leadership Forum and well-known Washington hostess. Jacobson, a
political<BR>science major at Syracuse who earned her political stripes in Gary
Hart's<BR>failed presidential campaign in 1984, has worked for Evan Bayh for
15<BR>years, was an adviser in the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton
and<BR>finance chair of the Democratic National Committee and
Democratic<BR>Leadership Council under President Clinton."<BR><BR>She's a part
of the DLC? They're the people who steered the Dem Party
into<BR>"Republican-Lite" by crying that the Dems cannot compete with the
GOP<BR>without corporate cash - which is kinda like the police saying they
must<BR>become heroin addicts to keep up with the heroin addicts.<BR><BR>"...
John Avlon, the author of "Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is<BR>Hijacking
America"; Kiki McLean, a former senior adviser to Hillary<BR>Clinton's
presidential campaign; Lisa Borders, the president of the<BR>Atlanta City
Council; and Bill Galston, a domestic policy adviser to<BR>President Bill
Clinton, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and<BR>director of the
Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the School<BR>of Public Policy of
the University of Maryland."<BR><BR>On the same website is an article titled
"Liberal Democrats Livid over<BR>Obama Tax compromise". Personally, I don't see
why that makes anyone<BR>"liberal". It's a stupid policy that further buries the
national budget in<BR>debt (to China) and is, in substance, a complete give-away
to the<BR>billionaires in both the GOP & DLC with only an insulting token
crumb<BR>tossed to working class Americans.<BR><BR>Why should such people be
labeled as "liberals" - maybe because that's<BR>what Faux News is calling us. If
their language is the same as the<BR>labeling on Fox then how far from Fox could
they be?<BR><BR>Remember, the Tea Party was started by well-funded insiders of
the GOP<BR>working out of conservative think tanks who then let go of the leash
&<BR>encouraged Fox, CNN et al to call it "a grassroots movement".
Why<BR>shouldn't we be watching for the same astro-turf as the basis of this
one?<BR><BR>Blackwater Security, an illegal private army guilty of random
murders<BR>everywhere they go, changed their name to Xe when the name
"Blackwater"<BR>was being spoken too often in the mainstream media in
association with<BR>criminal activity. Is it really so difficult to see the
"rebranding" in<BR>the Republican and Democratic Parties? Rebranding is a common
& popular<BR>corporate strategy whenever an existing brand has been
associated with<BR>negative feelings, as have both wings of the dominant
party.<BR><BR>I seem to recall that there is a scripture in the Bible that warns
"the<BR>devil will appear to you in a pleasing form", so prepare to bend
over,<BR>drop your pants and apply vaseline. Just the same, I will be curious
to<BR>see further stories of this just to see if anyone can prove me wrong.
I<BR>hope so, I'm getting tired of being cynical AND right.<BR><BR><BR>>
_'No Labels' Political Group Aims to Combat Nation's<BR>>
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