UPDATED: Carper Moves to Support Markell
The more I think about it the more I think that Jack Markell SHOULD renounce the DLC award and tell Tom Caper to shove the award up his ass sideways. Reading crap like this puts me in a very pissed off frame of mind:
Fox News Democrat Harold Ford went on Fox News to attack (Daily Kos) and YearlyKos. This is what the DLC has been reduced to — going on Fox News to attack Democrats and being forced to debate a guy who “wasn’t respectable 3 or 4 years ago” in a bid to justify their organization’s existence.
Fuck the DLC and fuck Tom Carper. He and Harold Ford are the ones with “extreme” views.
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This Democratic Losership Council (DLC) award for Markell does not mean much on its own. Until you consider the fact that Tom Carper directed this award to Markell and Tom Carper does not do stuff for the hell of it.
My sense is that Carper is moving to make Markell safe for other insiders. He is either hedging his bets and wants to keep Markell on good terms with “the club” or is laying the groundwork for more public support in the near future.
Gosh! Markell thinks and works at his job! He worked hard to not only decide what to do, but how to do it.
I don’t know. Is that better than Carney carrying on four more years of Minner’s lackadaisacal mismanagement of our administration and appointment of unqualified sycophants to run state agencies?
Its a toss up (by that I mean, even thinking of four more years of Minneresque governement via her pool boy makes me ‘toss up’).
Obviously I’m biased, but does it seem to anyone else that Markell’s an award-chaser?
Is there someone in the State Treasurer’s office that is responsible for applying for every award out there?
This DLC award is a non-starter, since they’re just trying to boost their own.
Except Markell is not “their own.”
Has Markell renounced the DLC and I missed it?
The pecking order has always been Minner/Carney
Carper/Castle.
The scrap which may or may not take place is secondary to what the mess will look like the day after.
Remember, the prize is what people( party and interest groups) are after not the person running.
Has Markell renounced the DLC and I missed it?
I’m not holding my breath. I gave Matt Denn a hard time once for getting some recognition from the horrible counterproductive DLC, but as I see it now, if the DLC wants to endorse more progressive candidates – so be it.
Jack is a card-carrying DLC member from way back. I support him, but I have to forgive him for that.
In fairness, I too supported the DLC in the Clinton era. But its time has passed. I’d like to see Jack drop it, but in all honesty I don’t think anybody else in Delaware really cares.
Good point.
I don’t think anybody else in Delaware really cares.
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heh
not too many protests anyway
DLC was the engine and centrist compromise was the mechanism by which DEMs under Clinton held ground through the 1990’s.
That atmosphere then merging into the GOPer Vision of Bushco has been disasteruos – mainly per China.
The DLC’s Global Labor/Trade compromises are now attached to so much bile that the DEM presidential bunch opted out of DLC ceremony this year (all but defacto running mate Bill C.).
As I’ve observed before, the DLC has two almost unrelated functions. One is to promote the message of blurring the differences so that middle of the road voters don’t get scared of Democrats for being tax-and-spend peaceniks. That’s the DLC message Harold Ford keep pitching. It may have been a relevant tactic 15 years ago, but makes little sense these days.
The other function, which I think is useful, is to highlight policy wonkiness in all its geeky glory. The recognition Markell got was for his Delaware Facing Forward report on the aging of Delaware’s population, which is a solid and useful piece of policy analysis.
As for chasing awards, Carney got one two weeks ago for “efforts to raise awareness about mental health issues across the state.”
http://ltgov.delaware.gov/News/2007/20070723-humanitarian.shtml
Dave, hasn’t the Burris family garnered its share of civic awards? For that matter, I’m sure Alan Levin has a wall full of awards himself.
An award for raising awareness about mental health issues? That have anything to do with beating the shit out of mental patients?
hee hee — and wasn’t the award from the Governor’s Council — I’m just saying
This post could mis-lead a person into thinking that Carper has come out for Markell.
Carper is going to back Carney as the machine’s man.
Carper has been holding court with the people who are heading into 2008 under the DEM umbrella. Word is that the “what it is” for DEM candidates in 2008 us whether Carper says yea or nay. RE: concerning his support.
Two women I know were personally told by Herr Carper that they “weren’t s++t” (not really – he actually told them that he was backing their DEM opponent).
Actually, Jack Markell has pulled off the possibly unique feat of having been boosted by the DLC and endorsed by Democracy For America.