by Scott Creighton
Globalists UNITE! Don’t be Ashamed to be a Globalist Stooge! You have your own Political Party Now! no more slinking around pretending to be something you are not. BE PROUD to be a corporatist sellout! It’s all the rage!
For years now I have been writing about how the neoliberals have been hijacking one party or the other, turning the United States into a Milton Friedman economic experiment like Chile in 1973. Reagan and the Bush clan hijacked the republican party and perverted the conservative movement while Obama and the Clintons did the same to the democrats and the liberals with their “New Dems” and DLC.
Well now, they can all join together, happily, under one official roof… the Neoliberal Party had its official kick-off today. It appears to be run by PR agents from some of the leading public relations firms, and all your favorite neoliberals are there to wish it well.
They call themselves “No Labels” and they launched their big PR campaign tonight. They say “No Left. No Right. Forward”… that’s right, only ONE WAY to think now, and they are nice enough to include a section of their website that tells you just what to think.
“The US must Remain the World’s Premier Economic Power- Most Americans realize that unprecedented levels of debt threaten America’s economic growth. What’s worse, half of that debt belongs to foreign countries like China. We need to restore fiscal solvency. Because a huge share of the budget goes to fund mandatory, “entitlement” programs, fiscal solvency is simply not possible without entitlement reform.
President Obama convened a bipartisan deficit reduction panel to propose solutions, but it has already come under attack.” “No Labels”
Yes, the “No Labels” Party understands that the deficit crisis means we have to reform “entitlement programs”, like Social Security, or else the country is doomed.
And let’s not forget that unregulated free trade means democracy and freedom…
“Here are two truths worth reasserting because our cynical politics often disavow them: First, the world beyond our borders offers America more of an opportunity than a threat. And second, a world bound together by increased trade and investment across borders is a far safer and a far more prosperous world. All Americans should take pride in the leadership role our nation played in the aftermath of World War II in creating an international system that has facilitated and encouraged international trade and globalization.” “No Labels”
Oh it’s very profitable for the Walton family and the various Goldman Sachs bankers who sold bundled garbage to Irish firefighter’s unions for their pension funds… it’s very profitable Kathy Lee Giffford and her Kmart clothing line investors. It just doesn’t do much for anyone else. But don’t think about that, put those “Labels” aside…
How about national ID cards?
“Americans’ aversion to national ID cards may be deeply rooted in our concepts of freedom but they make for a more haphazard voter registration system.” “No Labels”
Who are they getting advice from?
“The Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, two leading Washington think tanks, teamed up in 2010 for a five-year project on election reform. Their final report, authored by John Fortier, Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, offers one of the clearest analyses you will ever read of America’s imperfect electoral patchwork, and the efforts to modernize it since 2000.” “No Labels”
Bush tax cuts?
“The liberal wing of the Democratic Party is furious over President Obama’s deal with congressional Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts, but the move is likely to go over well with independent voters. To liberals, the president’s agreement to continue the cuts for families whose incomes top $250,000 was heresy. To independents, it was compromise—more like candidate Obama’s promise to “change the way Washington works” than the “my-way-or-the-highway” mentality that has halted progress on so many important problems in recent years.” “No Labels”
So who is this group of neoliberal centrists passing themselves off as “non-partisan”?
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, David Brooks, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator Evan Bayh, Governor Charlie Crist just to name a few. Those are actually people speaking at tonight’s festivities. Here are some others who are involved in this little “Party”…
David Frum… “economic speechwriter to President George W. Bush. He served as a senior adviser to the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign in 2008″
Holly Page… “in working with the nation’s leading third party organizations and centrist Democrats, having spent 13 years at the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the last 5 of which she was the Executive Vice President.”
John Avlon… “CNN contributor and the senior political columnist for The Daily Beast. He is the author of “Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics“
John Veroneau … “Deputy U.S. Trade Representative under President Bush and as an Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Clinton.”
Kiki Mclean… “Senior Advisor to the Hillary Clinton for President Campaign, national press secretary and spokesperson to Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign“
Nancy Jacobson…. “ For the past 15 years, she was a senior advisor to the Democratic Leadership Council, Finance Chair for Senator Evan Bayh, and helped to found Third Way, a centrist think tank committed to providing the best ideas to policy makers.”
William Galston… “Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy” “No Labels”
But don’t worry, it won’t be just a big group of politicos talking about what role government should play in our lives… business leaders and PR agents from some of the top propaganda outfits in DC will be there as well… finally, the marriage of the corporation and the state has an official fascist party to call their own…
Len Kennedy is a leading Washington, D.C., attorney and businessman who focuses on the development of mobile, telecommunications and broadband businesses.
Loranne Ausley is one of Florida’s leading voices for children and families. She is an attorney who served in the Florida legislature for 8 years, and in 2010 ran as the Democratic nominee for CFO, one of Florida’s four statewide elected Cabinet positions. Ausley is a DLC Fellow…
Mike Gelb is a public affairs consultant and writer in the Washington, D.C. area. He is a former journalist, who covered politics and the White House for Reuters News Service
Adam Mendelsohn is a Partner of Mercury Public Affairs in Sacramento with 16 years of experience in strategic communications and public affairs. Mr. Mendelsohn served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Andrés Martinez is the director of the Schwartz Fellows Program at the Washington, D.C.-based New America Foundation, an independent think tank.
Don Baer has had leading roles in media, communications, politics, government, journalism and law. For President Bill Clinton, he was White House Director of Strategic Planning and Communications and, before that, Director of Speechwriting and Research.
Eugene Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher Chair at the Urban Institute and author of fifteen books and a regular column The Government We Deserve (www.governmentwedeserve.org). He has served as an advisor to the President Obama’s debt commission, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis, chair of a technical panel advising the Social Security Administration, President of the National Tax Association, Vice-President of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, “No Labels”
Sorry to just give you a list there. Does that pretty much sum up the big news in the “bi-partisan” world today? We have to all give up on those partisan ideas we have, like social justice, Social Security, fairness… ect… we have to give those up and just “move forward” because now we have a new propaganda product being sold to us… the “No Label” brand of neoliberalism in America.
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