Rolling Stone: The Democratic Party Would Triangulate Its Own Mother

[LiberalElite]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-democratic-party-would-triangulate-its-own-mother-20150514?google_editors_picks=true

"Barack Obama made headlines this week by taking on Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a dispute over our latest labor-crushing free trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The president's anger over Warren's decision to lead the Senate in blocking his authority to fast-track the TPP was heavily covered by the Beltway media, which loves a good intramural food fight."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-democratic-party-would-triangulate-its-own-mother-20150514#ixzz3aAaeJOAF


Also cross posted in GD and Politics 2015

[bbgrunt]

1. Taaibi knows how to put it:

"The reality is, as much as the mainstream Democratic Party whines about Fox and its cohorts, they constantly use all the negative energy of the conservative media as free marketing. Instead of standing in true partnership with unions and working people and employing a strategy of forcing the rest of the world to democratize and grant workers real rights in exchange for access to American consumers, they've done the opposite – beating up on the captured labor demographic as a way to reassure big business."

[Enthusiast]

2. He put it accurately.

I'm tired of this fucking ruse. The bully pulpit doesn't exist until we need it to do the work of the corporations.