What Do Unions Get for Helping Dems?

[Dennis Breslin]

Brad De Long wrote:
> Look: I never said that the Clinton White House had phenomenal
> political instincts. I never even said that they are competent. But
> (with the exception of Bruce Reed) the people around Clinton-Gore
> were *not* the neoliberal trolls you imagine.

Perhaps you're right.  Then again, I suspect that by the early
1990s, the neoliberals were a decade or so into their career
trajectories.  What they left in their wake were narrowed 
political expectations, policy wonkism as political activism, 
and the economic foundations of a centrist agenda.  Add to 
that an Elvis impersonator to woo the crowd and a ton of 
money from wall street to finance the show.  Find whoever
were the trolls and do a DNA check.

 
> *We* live in the Treasury.
> 
And everything else is pretty much epiphenomenal.

Dennis Breslin