DLC advocates for two new think tanks...started by DLC alumni.

madfloridian

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Thu Jun-22-06 05:38 PM
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DLC advocates for two new think tanks...started by DLC alumni.

Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 06:02 PM by madfloridian

I recognize a lot of the names there. One I see is Jerome, which bothers me a bit. But that's just me. One of them was the editor of DLC's The Blueprint. Many of the articles seem to present the idea that liberals are not hawkish enough. I am not going to register to view the whole articles.

I am all for a party that embraces diversity, but the DLC has not embraced diversity. If we are not for the Iraq war and spreading freedom, they have no use for us. I worry about the blogosphere becoming so much a part of this.

http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=131&subid=192&contentid=253915

"There's plenty of talk going on in progressive circles these days about political strategy and policy ideas, but not really enough genuine, focused debate. A lot of the talk is overheated and factionalized, and all too often the conversation is inhibited by the peculiar fear that legitimate disagreements on vital issues will somehow contribute to conservative or Republican "talking points."

The Democratic Strategist is a new online publication whose mission is to "bring together the latest solid research on public attitudes and social trends with extended, ongoing discussion of long-range Democratic political strategy." Its co-editors are political scientist and former Clinton White House advisor Bill Galston; pollster Stan Greenberg; and political demographer (and DLC alumnus) Ruy Teixeira. They pledge to "maintain a firmly neutral meeting ground for both centrists and populists, readers of The Nation and The New Republic, professional political consultants, grassroots activists and supporters of every significant candidate and perspective within the Democratic Party."

The first issue of The Democratic Strategist is true to the publication's mission, offering essays on the long-range future of the Democratic Party from PPI president Will Marshall, Ken Baer and Andrei Cherny, Elaine Kamarck, Donna Brazile, Jerome Armstrong, Harold Meyerson, Bob Borosage(of Campaign for America's Future), and John Wilhelm. The journal's site also offers a daily blog, and will soon sponsor online conferences.

As it happens, Democratic Strategist contributors Cherny (a former editor of Blueprint Magazine) and Baer are co-editors of the other new progressive publication on the block, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. This quarterly is boldly, almost defiantly, dedicated to serious policy discussions among progressives, as the co-editors explain in the first issue."

I like to know where groups stand, who is funding them, and are they mostly New Dem and DLC in nature. Some of us started being concerned about the TBA conference. We realized Dean was not among the speakers, after being a prominent speaker for 3 years. Bill Moyers was not present either, though he was usually a speaker. But we still did not think much about it, just figured that the presidential candidates were getting most of the space, which would be understandable.

However when we heard that a TBA organizer said that the reason Dean was not there was partly scheduling, partly "philosophical"...we got a strange feeling.

I like to know where people stand, I like to know where groups stand.