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Political Blog Weekly: 18 September 2009 | U.S. Common Sense — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:09:32 +0000

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By: Eclectic Radical

Eclectic Radical — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:17:35 +0000

I had two main thoughts, reading this.

The first is regarding the Clinton Era Great Lurch to the right. Prior to the Republican victories in mid-term elections in 1994, Newt Gingrich’s position was minority whip. The whip position has generally been held, regardless of party, by a slightly loony ideologue because it is believed such people are most effective and motivated in fulfilling the duties of the role. However, to most Democrats and Republicans, Gingrich was a political joke not taken seriously as a party leader or major political force. A wave of reactionary freshmen congressmen later and he was bypassing the former House minority leader to become Speaker and was suddenly the face of the GOP.

Now he looks like a moderate voice of reason compared to some prominent Republicans, at rare moments, which is a frightening thing.

Second:

It is very true that echo-chamber liberals are very far from the controls of the mainstream Democratic Party. For the most part, they are even pretty far from the most liberal Democrats in the Progressive Caucus in the House.

Echo-chamber liberals in the Democratic Party belong to liberal movement organizations with very little political clout or they have joined fringe liberal parties like the Greens or Peace and Freedom.

The Democratic Party is dominated by the DLC, which is devoted to nominating electable candidates who hold moderate or ‘mainstream conservative’ positions rather than ‘nutty liberals.’ Many liberals who do NOT live in echo chambers are kept out of the real corridors of party influence.

By: Posts about Andrew Sullivan as of September 13, 2009 » The Daily Parr

Posts about Andrew Sullivan as of September 13, 2009 » The Daily Parr — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:35:08 +0000

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