In the middle of an otherwise excellent post, billmon writes, "The DLC types will never admit that class warfare works - their entire political premise is based on the notion that Democrats have to talk like smarter Republicans when campaigning on economic issues."

Let's see now.... Would those be the same DLCers that Bill Clinton was leading in 1992 when he explicitly ran on a promise to raise taxes on the well-to-do to pay for tax cuts for everybody else? Or the DLCers whose New Orleans Declaration clearly states, "We believe a progressive tax system is the only fair way to pay for government." Or is billmon referring to the "DLC types" whose website is currently teasing an article with these Republican-sounding words: "The middle class is getting squeezed in today's economy -- and Bush's plutocratic policies are making matters worse"?

Fact is, the DLC has always understood class warfare. We just have this crazy idea that maybe it doesn't make a lot of sense to fight it exactly the same way that George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Mike Dukakis did in the course of their, uh, groundbreaking presidential campaigns.

So sue us.

Hell, we're just two for two in the presidential elections department anyway, right?

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