How the DLC Raises Funds: [View All]

They begin by putting up such piss-poor opposition that the Republicans sweep into power Then they wait for the Puggies to get into so much trouble that the people rise in anger and sweep them out in numbers that all their crooked election strategies can't overcome.

Once in power, the DLC pols threaten the health care insurance industry with reform. They threaten the auto industry with new CAFE standards. They threaten the oil industry with windfall profit taxes and repeals of drilling incentives. They threaten international corporations with environmental regulations & fair labor standards.

Then they wait for the threatened companies to make huge contributions to their war chests.

Then they pass all the legislation they threatened to pass, but in such watered-down forms that none of it inconveniences their contributors.

And everybody's happy.