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Related: About this forumWSJ Panel Celebrates 'Third Way' Attack on Elizabeth Warren
In between the non sequitur half of the argument and the wildly misleading half of the argument, Third Way unleashes a torrent of numbers intended to convince the reader that cuts to Social Security and Medicare are needed, like, yesterday. Read on...
Here's more on Third Way from Markos: Corporate 'Dems': cutting Social Security is path to electoral victory:
Remember Third Way? They're the jokers who filled the void when the DLC collapsed. But unlike the DLC, Third Way operates in the shadows, lobbying Democrats behind the scenes and via travel junkets. So it's always a pleasure when they emerge from the shadows, like this piece in the Wall Street Journal (what, National Review wasn't available?):
If you talk to leading progressives these days, you'll be sure to hear this message: The Democratic Party should embrace the economic populism of New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Such economic populism, they argue, should be the guiding star for Democrats heading into 2016. Nothing would be more disastrous for Democrats [...]
Translation: Wall Street is scared shitless of De Blasio and Warren. But we knew that already. Head below the fold to see just how scared they are, and what they really want. Hint: it's something to do with Social Security and Medicare and their taxes, and none of it is good. Read on...
Of course we all know who the pundits in the segment above were cheering for.
- See more at: http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/wsj-panel-celebrates-third-way-attack#sthash.D5vTWdYQ.dpuf
bvar22
(39,909 posts)They are WAY to the Conservative Right of this guy on Social Security:
FAR to the Conservative Right of that guy,
and they are inside OUR House.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Guaranteed.
Following Third Way has served to preserve a near suicidal Republican Party.