DLC to the Rescue of the Democratic Party. Not!

I am so sick of hearing that Democrats need to compromise on our principles, give up the fight to protect reproductive rights, stop fighting for civil rights for homosexuals, and get cozy with corporations in order to win elections.

Who recommends that we do these things? The DLC, for one; its claim to fame is its link to the two Clinton presidential victories.

Interesting, though, how the pro-DLC wing of the party fails to mention the slow and steady decline of the Democrats in the House and Senate during the DLC's ascendancy. Or that Clinton, the DLC darling, never even won 50% of the vote (his winning percentages were 43% and 49%).

Visit Sirotablog and read David Sirota's thoughts on the DLC's latest debacle:

The DLC has agreed to participate in a Heritage Foundation event entitled "Did the Progressives Destroy America?"

WTF? To even justify the idea that progressives (who have been behind every great movement in this country from the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage and workers' rights) are destroying America is to play into the hands of Buchanan, Hannity, Perle, and Rove. It is destructive, grotesque, shocking, and certainly not the act of a group that purports to promote the Democratic Party. We know who is destroying America and it sure as hell isn't the progressives.

Why in the world would any Democratic group ever want to participate in any Heritage Foundation event? There are no swing voters in the audience, as Sirota points out, so even that paper-thin argument doesn't hold water.

Hmmm . . . so does DLC stand for Destroy Liberal Causes? Or the Democratic Losers Council?