The DLC on Tom DeLay
Why people keep saying the DLC is a Republican front group is beyond me. Here are some clips from their update today:
So let's examine some of the leftist conspirators who are concerned about DeLay's behavior, and what it says about the GOP-controlled Congress:For starters, there's us. We have long argued that DeLay's modus operandi, focused on a crude play-for-pay approach to lobbyists interested in legislation, and including the most savagely partisan management of the House since the Gilded Age, is a disgrace, even if it turns out he has simply violated Congress' toothless ethics rules rather than any actual criminal statutes. Somehow or other we have reached this conclusion without receiving any advice, instruction, or donations from Mr. Soros, and few of our friends or critics would do anything but laugh at the idea that the DLC is some sort of "leftist" front organization.
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For their part, Democrats need to remember this controversy is not simply about Tom DeLay. The real goal is stopping the pattern of partisan and ethical abuses he represents. As even Republicans are beginning to say, DeLay's real significance is his role in the degeneration of key leaders of the conservative movement into a power-hungry cabal that has avidly pursued the maximum use of government to reward Republican constituency groups, to entrench wealth and privilege at the expense of the national interest, and to perpetuate their power as far into the future as possible.
No complaints from me.