Regarding their 'rising star' designation, they do that with all sorts of new pols. It's a recruitment device. Doesn't always take.
RE: Austan, he was named a 'Senior Economist' to both the DLC and their think tank, PPI, in 2006, wrote one or two pieces for them in 06-07, hasn't had anything to do with them since that I could find. He's certainly a centrist in orientation, like the people who put Obama over the top.
If we are looking for possible falsifications to your theory, who would qualify? Reich or Bonior?
Doug Henwood wrote:
> The DLC isn't some plotting cabal, but who said they were? The point is
> that Obama chose a big DLC honcho as his chief of staff. His top
> economic advisor, Goolsbee, is their chief economist. During the
> campaign, Obama rejected the DLC's earlier embrace of him - they'd named
> him some sort of rising star several years earlier - but obviously he
> did that only because it was unwelcome during the primary season.
> Clearly the drift of policy is going to be very DLC-friendly.
>
> I'll accept your last sentence, Max, when Obama appoints someone of
> significance of whom the DLC disapproves. My bet is that it ain't gonna
> happen.
>
> Doug
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