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Saturday, February 05, 2005

DLC Working With Big Business on Bush Agenda?

At a time when Democrats must be united in fighting against Social Security privatization, "tort reform" that restricts workers rights, and regulatory rollbacks, there are some new troubling signs that some factions claiming to represent the Democratic Party might be helping push a right-wing agenda.

In its cover story today about how the "Chamber of Commerce Helps the Bush Agenda," the Washington Post noted:

"The chamber has hired the Swiss Guard of paid consultants from both political parties. Several showed up at a recent dinner hosted by Donohue at the chamber, including Al From, chief executive of the Democratic Leadership Council [and] Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty, who was White House chief of staff in the Clinton administration."