OFA head Jim Messina now advising British Tories? He needs to resign!

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http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2013/08/jim_messina_who_just_took_a_jo.php

Harold Meyerson in The Washington Post:

Messina isn't just a consultant; he is also the chairman of Organizing for Action, which describes itself on its Web site as an "organization established to support President Obama in achieving enactment of the national agenda Americans voted for on Election Day 2012." The site touts the necessity of investing public dollars in infrastructure and highlights the efforts of volunteers across the country to win passage of immigration reform. If Organizing for Action's members had any say in the matter, they almost surely wouldn't approve of the group's chairman going to work for Britain's anti-immigrant, anti-public investment prime minister. Indeed, if they had any say in the matter, they might ask Messina to choose between Obama's agenda and Cameron's. If he opted to keep working for Cameron, they might just opt for a less-conflicted leader.

Mike Tomasky in the Daily Beast:

How could you flip from Barack Obama to David Cameron?
On immigration, domestic spending cuts, and Big Tobacco, Messina is signing on to and in the first two cases will be defending positions that are perfectly in line with America's Republican Party. What's he doing?

Political consulting isn't a profession known for its demanding ethical standards. But no matter how flexible your relationship to the truth or how sleazy your ads, there is one line you aren't supposed to cross--going to work for the other side. The Tories aren't the Texas Republican Party. But they are the other side.

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[last1standing]

1. Why resign?

It sounds like a good fit when one compares the policies of this administration with that of Cameron's.

[kenny blankenship]

4. Exactly. Selling the same shit, different store is all.

[Doctor_J]

2. The current DC Dems are a lot closer to the Tories than to Labour

In fact they are far to the right of the Tories.

[HooptieWagon]

3. I don't know about far to the right of Tories....

But they are certainly in line with Tories, and far to the right of Labour. Thats the Third Way for ya....