(NOT Clinton. The DLC is responsible for it all, yah know? :puke:)
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This New Democrat movement has had a short but remarkable history. Think about how far we've come. As you saw in the video we started in 1985 when we lost 49 states in the presidential election. But we started with a very simple belief, and that was we thought if we honored the time-honored traditions of the Democratic Party, those values that made all of us Democrats, but offered new ideas and new approaches for furthering them, the American people would once again trust us with national leadership. So we did and so they did, and the nation and our party are much better off for it.
In the 1990s, under Bill Clinton, we had the most remarkable record. Again, on the video, we saw what that record was, but it's a record that George Bush would die for. Who could imagine that a New Democrat president of the 1990s would create 23 million new jobs, raise employment to record heights and unemployment to three-decade lows, keep inflation under control, get incomes going up after a three-decade slide, reduce poverty. You talk about a liberal agenda -- we reduced poverty at a faster rate than in all but one decade in American history -- that's over 200 years. We moved more than 8 million people from welfare to work, we reduced crime in this country for eight straight years, and we did it by making the federal government the smallest since the Kennedy administration.
(Kef: lots of "we"s there, huh?)
But today the New Democrat values of opportunity, responsibility and community, and the progress we saw in the 1990s are in peril -- from a Bush administration that would undermine our values and reverse that progress, and from some in our own party who would take us back to the pre-Clinton days, who refuse to learn the lessons of President Clinton's success.
We can't let that happen and we won't do that. (Kef: There's that "We" again. Who fucking elected them to decide such things?)
The DLC has saved the Democratic Party once, and we're bound and determined to do it again. We can't afford to do anything less because the stakes are so high. When I think of all the things we wrote in this Blueprint and this just incredible critique that Bruce Reed and Ed Kilgore wrote of the Bush presidency, the one thing that stands out to me is how George Bush is pursuing policies that would undermine the fundamental promise of America. For the last three quarters of a century, from the beginning of the New Deal on, policies largely set by Democrats have been consistently devoted to growing the middle class, to making us a party -- a country of upward mobility, and they've succeeded. We now have the first mass middle class country in the world, and we have had policies that have consistently been aimed at expanding that. But what does George Bush do? He comes in, and he undermines the ethic that grew that middle class -- the ethic of hard work. If George Bush had his way, the only people who would be taxed in America are the people who go to work every day and play by the rules, and that is wrong. (Applause.)
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http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=86&subid=84&contentid=251942Hubris, thy name is From.
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