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	Democratic Leadership Council
		It may well be too late to apply the lessons of counterinsurgency theory to Iraq, but it's hardly too early to begin learning from the Iraq experience in the continuing fight against jihadist terrorism, which continues on many fronts in many countries.
		Democrats must avoid the temptation to follow up the electoral repudiation of the Bush-Rove polarization strategy with their own version of the same thing.
		The 2006 results not only showed an energized Democratic base but a decisive victory among independent and moderate voters who want real-world results from their government and from both parties, not just a choice between two noise machines.
	www.dlc.org (299 words)

	The Democratic Leadership Council: An Explanation of the Organization through an Examination of Education Policy
		Founded in 1984 by a group of moderate Southern politicians, the Democratic Leadership Council’s goal was to move the Democratic Party toward the center of the political spectrum.
		The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was formed in 1985 by a group of moderate Democrats who sought to refocus the goals of their party.
		In addition to supporting charter schools, the DLC has called for voluntary national academic standards, more teacher accountability, and an end to social promotion in which students are allowed to move onto the next grade simply because that is what the rest of their age group is doing.
	www.lib.utah.edu /epubs/hinckley/v2/lyman.htm (6329 words)

	Democratic Leadership Council drafts right-wing platform for coming elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) held its annual convention in Columbus, Ohio, last weekend, outlining its program for the upcoming 2006 mid-term elections and the presidential election in 2008.
		In using the DLC platform to call for a “cease fire” among the Democratic Party’s different factions, Clinton was sending a clear signal to left forces within the party, such as Moveon.org: Even the slightest nod to anti-war sentiment will be opposed by the party leadership.
		Various left-Democrat blogs have denounced Clinton’s speech before the DLC as a capitulation before the right wing of the party and urged a return to the party’s “roots.” However, the views expressed by Clinton and the DLC are merely a continuation of the policy pursued by the party leadership.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jul2005/dlc-j28.shtml (1365 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Democratic Leadership Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Critics contend that the DLC is effectively a powerful, corporate-financed mouthpiece within the Democratic party that acts to keep Democratic Party candidates and platforms sympathetic to corporate interests and the interests of the wealthy.
		The DLC interpreted the election of Reagan as a signal that progressive politics needed to be ‘modernized’ to remain viable.
		It is the opinion of the DLC that populism is not politically viable, citing the defeated Presidential campaigns of Senator George McGovern in 1972 and Vice-President Walter Mondale in 1984.
	random.dragonslife.org /democratic-leadership-council/7530 (1447 words)

	Liberal Hawks: Flying in Neocon Circles - by Tom Barry
		As the invasion plans advanced, both the neocons and the liberal hawks dismissed the opponents of the war as being reflexively pacifist and hopelessly naïve.
		Two Project for a New American Century (PNAC) letters in March 2003 played to those Democrats who believed that the invasion was justified at least as much by humanitarian concerns as it was by the purported presence of weapons of mass destruction.
		An open question facing the presumptive Democratic Party leadership and the presumptive party nominee John Kerry is whether they will align themselves with the militaristic and supremacist foreign policy advocated by the liberal hawks.
	www.antiwar.com /barry/?articleid=2630 (880 words)

	Lieberman Defeat: A Referendum on The Democratic Leadership Council
		Despite that declaration, however, Lieberman's denunciations of his fellow Democrats since that day have been so vitriolic that, last week, the Senate Democratic Caucus decided that, if Lieberman were to actually win the general election in November, he would not be welcome back into the Caucus and would, in fact, be stripped of all seniority.
		Democrats are looking to 2006 as an opportunity to make enough electoral gains to give them a majority in Congress, and their chances of doing so are especially promising in the U.S. Senate.
		Democratic leaders from House and Senate marched from the Capitol to the FDR Memorial, asserted that the Democratic Party was still the party of FDR, and that it would not trade away the single most successful program of the New Deal.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2006/3335lieberman.html (1316 words)

	Right Web \| Profile \| Democratic Leadership Council
		Aside from the DLC's leadership team, the major forces of the New Democrat movement are 45 House members and 20 senators who compose the New Democrat coalitions in Congress.
		Thus, the New Democrats of the DLC added their voices to the chorus of those calling for stiffer sentences, an end to affirmative action, reduced welfare benefits, and less progressive tax policies.
		But Clinton proved larger than the DLC ideologues, and it was Clinton who made the DLC a major force in the Democratic Party rather than the other way around, as the DLC leadership implies when it takes credit for the Democratic presidential victories of the 1990s.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1463 (2590 words)

	Democratic Leadership Council - dKosopedia
		The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) is an organization of self-described "moderate" Democratic politicians and fundraisers who aim to move the Democratic Party right-ward in an attempt to strengthen the viability of Democratic candidates.
		Led by founder Al From, the DLC pursues a goal of moderating the progressivist platform of the Democratic Party in such a way that makes it palatable to large-scale campaign donors and corporate lobbyists, while still maintaining some ties to traditional Democratic values.
		The DLC has become extraordinarily controversial in recent years by attacking prominent Democratic politicians that it perceives as standing too far to the left.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/DLC (225 words)

	The Corporatist Democratic Leadership Council
		The DLC brags about one of their own-- Bill Clinton-- developing the message that brought the Democrats the White House in 1992, after the disastrous failed and supposedly ultra-liberal candidacies of Walter Mondale in 1984 and Michael Dukakis in 1988.
		To the DLC mind, Democrats are catering to "special interests" when they stand up for trade unions, regulatory consumer-investor protections, a pre-emptive peace policy overseas, pruning the bloated military budget now devouring fully half of the federal government's entire discretionary expenditures, defending Social Security from Wall Street schemes, and pressing for universal health care coverage.
		So right-wing is the DLC, mounted imperiously on their sagging Party, that even opposing Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, that cause huge federal deficits and program cuts in necessities such as health, education, environmental protection and children well-being, is considered ultra-liberal and contrary to winning campaigns.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles7/Nader_DLC.htm (832 words)

	Democratic Leadership Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their original focus was on influencing internal Democratic politics so as to secure the 1988 presidential nomination for a Southern conservative such as Sam Nunn or Chuck Robb, both of whom were early DLC supporters.
		However, when the DLC's pet project, the Super Tuesday primary, turned out to be a boon for Reverend Jesse Jackson, a vocal critic of the DLC, the group began to shift toward attempting to influence the public debate.
		Marshall Wittmann, a former senior fellow at the DLC and the former legislative director for the Christian Coalition, and Will Marshall, a vocal supporter of the war in Iraq, are among those associated with the DLC who have been accused of having right-wing credentials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council (1611 words)

	DLC: Wolves in Democrats' Clothing
		He founded the DLC, a collection of Democrat politicians, in 1985, apparently out of fear that the Democrats were done as a political party.
		Because of that, the DLC is at odds now with Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and apparent front-runner for this year's Democrat nomination.
		And the DLC sees Dean's opposition to the war in Iraq as some sort of whacked-out far-left concept, which, if you think about it, is an insult to all the thinking conservatives who oppose a preemptive war not declared by Congress.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0105-07.htm (1137 words)

	The Democratic Leadership Council and Israel
		From leads, the DLC, is clearly on the wane, and the current issue of their magazine carries an appeal for an "entry level Development Assistant" to help them raise much needed funds.
		The DLC is blatantly adopting the policies of the neocons populating the right-wing think tanks in Washington that produce such human anomalies as John Bolton, Richard Perle and Daniel Pipes, all rabidly Zionist neoconservatives who advocate a much more aggressive US military agenda aimed directly at Islamic nations and peoples everywhere.
		While the Zionist ideals of the DLC will appeal to a narrowly limited band of followers, progressive Democrats who are seriously committed to regime change in Washington should oppose the DLC with all their might.
	www.thezionazireport.org /democratic_leadership_council.htm (1773 words)

	Pahrump Valley Times - Nye County's Largest Newspaper Circulation
		The DLC, once known as the 'White Boys Caucus' and now as 'George Bush Lite,' was formed in 1985 to try to push the Democratic Party to the right.
		The DLC has turned entrenchment in Washington into a political philosophy, helping fulfill President Harry Truman's contention that if the public is given a choice of two conservatives it will always go for the real thing.
		In fact, Roosevelt DID fault his fellow Democrats, saying, "I warn those nominal Democrats who squint at the future with their faces turned toward the past and who feel no responsibility to the demands of the new time, that they are out of step with their party...
	www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com /2004/01/07/opinion/myers.html (1104 words)

	The Democrats' brewing civil war - Salon
		It's been that kind of year in the Democratic Party, which clearly is still struggling to regroup from the 2000 presidential election and the setbacks in the 2002 congressional elections.
		Founded in 1985, the DLC is the nerve center of the New Democrat wing of the party, which seeks to distance itself from big-government liberalism, emphasizing free-market solutions to social problems.
		Grass-roots members of the party are tired of compromising their values in the hope of winning the swing voters that the DLC covets, and hope to recruit non-voters instead.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2003/07/12/democrats (1272 words)

	Centrist Democrats Ponder How To Counter Netroots - July 21, 2006 - The New York Sun
		At a time when centrism has become a dirty word in some Democratic Party circles, hundreds of the party's avowed moderates are convening in Denver this weekend to discuss their agenda for this fall's election and the presidential contest in 2008.
		The annual meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group that came to prominence in connection with President Clinton's electoral victory in 1992, takes place as the organization has become a lightning rod for criticism from liberal Web-based activists known as the netroots.
		Clinton appeared before the council last year and called for a halt to the internecine fighting, bloggers unleashed attacks on her that are still reverberating.
	www.nysun.com /article/36497?page_no=1 (481 words)

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		While the DLC will not formally disclose its sources of contributions and dues, the full array of its corporate supporters is contained in the program from its annual fall dinner last October, a gala salute to Lieberman that was held at the National Building Museum in Washington.
		The DLC board of trustees is an elite body whose membership is reserved for major donors, and many of the trustees are financial wheeler-dealers who run investment companies and capital management firms--though senior executives from a handful of corporations, such as Koch, Aetna, and Coca-Cola, are included.
		For DLC critics like the Economic Policy Institute's Jeff Faux, the particular needs may be different from the 1930s--child care, say, rather than social insurance for the elderly--but the role of government in providing security and opportunity that markets won't provide is no less real or politically valued by potential Democratic voters.
	www.prospect.org /print-friendly/print/V12/7/dreyfuss-r.html (4867 words)

	"Democratic Leadership Council"
		To all the members of the Senate and the House who are here and who have been so good to the DLC over the years; to all my predecessors as chairmen of the DLC, including several members of the Congress and former Congressman McCurdy.
		Even then the DLC was working to go beyond the stale debate and the false choices of Washington, D.C., with modern policies, good ideas, mainstream values.
		Today, it seems to me the central challenge for the DLC, for all Democrats, indeed, for all Americans, is how to seize the benefits of a new economy in a way that benefits all our people, that keeps us all moving forward together.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/New/html/19971027-8478.html (2834 words)

	ataxingmatter: Democratic Leadership Council--tax exempt, or not?
		The DLC's application for tax exempt status explicitly acknowledged that its founders were members of the Democratic Party who hoped to address policy issues for the benefit of the party and the public at large.
		The Democratic leadership Council is so named because it was founded by federal and state elected officials who are Democrats and who were concerned with the direction of policy debate within their party, as well as within the country as a whole.
		The complaint (filed by DLC on May 27, 2005 to recover taxes erroneously assessed and collected), answer, and DLC and government motions for summary judgment and DLC and government responses to those motions are available in BNA's TaxCore.
	ataxingmatter.blogs.com /tax/2006/09/democratic_lead.html (854 words)

	Blogswarm - Online News Magazine
		Steve Gilliard on the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council):
		The democrats were led by the DLC in the failed mid-term elections.
		And if these DLC propeller-heads think that a little more praying and a little more quoting of the Scripture by their candidate is going to make a difference, they better go back to a little party history.
	blogswarm.blogdrive.com /archive/709.html (1954 words)

	Missing Link: How Right-Wing Neo-Cons Created 'Democratic Leadership Council'
		Democrats may be still suffering under the delusion that the Democratic Leadership Council—which brags that the "top four" Democratic Presidential candidates are "Blair Democrats" who supported the Iraq War—is something other than a right-wing Trojan Horse and protection racket for Vice President Dick Cheney, as Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche has exposed.
		The "missing link" between the "Democratic" DLC and the now-"Republican" CDM/CPD/CFW neo-cons, is the notorious Social Democrats-USA, (SDUSA), whose chairman, Penn Kemble, was the Executive Director of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority in 1972, until he brought in Richard Perle's underling Stephen Bryen to take his place.
		The DLC and SDUSA both maintain extremely close links to Tony Blair's British "New Labour" party faction, and in parallel, are out to recreate a new version of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority in time for the 2004 elections.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2003/3028neocon_dems.html (2685 words)

	Someone Better Blow Reveille for the Democratic Leadership - BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
		The Democratic leaders are standing by or, even worse, they are helping the Republican Congress and the Senate to pass laws and the White House to pass executive orders that reduce the restrictions on corporate pollution and allow it to increase.
		The non-leaders of the Democratic Party are allowing Senators like Robert Byrd, Russell Feingold, Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy, Carl Levin and Congressional Democrats like Barbara Lee and Henry Waxman and Nancy Pelosi stand out there as the lone voices of dissent while they think they are saving their own elected skins.
		If the Democrats in the House and Senate who voted to support the President couldn't see the ruse, perhaps they don't deserve to be there in the first place.
	www.buzzflash.com /contributors/03/10/con03281.html (1128 words)

	Electing a Winner: The Irregular Facts
		As America nears the presidential primary season, conservative insiders at the Democratic Leadership Council are in a panic.
		Members of the Democratic Leadership Council justify their attacks on Democratic leaders by claiming that Democrats who speak up about issues that Democrats care about are incapable of winning any national election.
		The Democratic Leadership Council has run the Democratic Party into the ground for the last 4 years, and their only hope at retaining power is to get one of their own, like Senator Lieberman, the presidential nomination.
	irregulartimes.com /newpolls.html (1067 words)

	Is Dems’ solution on menu at Applebee’s? - Tom Curry - MSNBC.com
		Democratic leaders are out of touch with the American people, Sosnik said in a panel discussion Tuesday sponsored by the centrist Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).
		Lincoln told the DLC audience that what mattered to Arkansas voters was not just the details of a plan to provide medical insurance for the uninsured, but real-world cultural issues.
		“Democrats have to make it very clear to the electorate that we believe that America is essentially a force for good in the world,” he argued.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6453647 (1448 words)

	Behind the DLC Takeover - Democratic Leadership Council Progressive, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is the real-life version of Invasion of the Party Snatchers--with the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) burrowing into the pod that is the Democratic Party.
		After Walter Mondale's 1984 defeat at the hands of Ronald Reagan, a group of mostly Southern, conservative Democrats hatched the theory that their party was in trouble because it had grown too sympathetic to the agendas of organized labor, feminists, African Americans, Latinos, gays and lesbians, peace activists, and egalitarians.
		Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, the current president of the DLC and very possibly the truest of its true believers, was nominated for the Vice Presidency.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1295/is_10_64/ai_65952690 (820 words)

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