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Oh, No: The "Third Way" Again

The Democrats' mandate: Keep polishing the same turd until it shines

Today's Washington Post reveals that there's a new player in Democratic party circles: Third Way, a dead-in-its-cradle alternative to the Democratic Leadership Council that would replace the bankrupt values of the DLC with--the bankrupt values of the DLC. The story is freighted with such telling constructions as "moderate majority" and "progressive centrists." Is this all eerily familiar somehow? It ought to be. It's the siren song of the Clinton era, right down to the "Third Way" clap-trap, which amounts to a repackaging of the first and only way, which is Republican governance dedicated to building armies and facilitating commerce and accumulation. 

In more consequential news, the Bush family has named its new puppy, a Scottish terrier, Miss Beazley.

Posted by Steve Perry at November 11, 2004 9:55 AM

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