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We need to be calling bullshit loudly and inexorably on Hillary, Lieberman and the other DLC sell-outs. Would there honestly be any prospect of an investigation of the Rethug thieves, let alone the corrupt Iraq profiteers like Halliburton, with someone like Hillary in charge? This is the problem with the DLC mindset-- they're so in bed with the powerful military-industrial complex and media magnate corporate plutocrats who are squeezing our country dry, they have no incentive to reform them.

In fact, it's becoming increasingly clear that the war profiteers and corporate welfarists have a back-up plan in mind if they wind up with a weakling on the Rethug ticket for 2008-- they want to make sure that a DLCer like Hillary would be on the Democratic ticket, that way basically covering their bases and just about guaranteeing a pro-war, pro-corporatist winner either way for 2008. Thus if a DLCer like that winds up on the Dem ticket for 2008, then we've already lost no matter who wins in the general election.

This is not the time to once again, after several decades, say "it's not the Progressive moment"-- if not now, after such an incredible string of utter Republican malfeasance, then when would there ever be such a moment? Progressives can actually win in 2008, and we need to make sure that we're not hijacked by the DLC while we're fighting for the Progressive cause.