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| Donks Invest $80 In Liberal Think Tanks |
| 2005-08-07 |
| At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute at least $1 million each to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups, to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up during the last three decades. The money will be channeled through a new partnership called the Democracy Alliance, founded last spring in a series of liberal initiatives as the Democratic Party and its allies struggle with the loss of power in Congress and the White House. Many influential Democratic contributors were left angry and despairing about the party's poor showing in last year's elections, and are looking for more effective ways to invest their support. Financial commitments totaling at least $80 million in the next five years at a time when some other liberal groups, such as the George Soros-backed America Coming Together, are floundering — suggest the Democracy Alliance is becoming a player in the long-term effort to reinvigorate the left. The group has a goal of raising $200 million, a sum that would inevitably come partly at the expense of more traditional Democratic groups... The big question is whether they will fritter away the money, spend the money to discover winning issues, or will they just use it to come up with "how can we fool 'em now?" election strategies? My guess is the election strategies, which won't work, followed by squandering the rest of the money. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 When all is said and done they will still revert back back to the writings of Marx for guidance first. Then will still go back to the same old class envy and racist rhetoric. They can't help themselves. The Dems look like a tired rusty antique. How many more socailist/marxist societies need to fail before they get any reasonable clue. ... what would noam chomsky do.... |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2005-08-07 22:31 |
| #6 At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute at least $1 million each Wonder how many earned their money and not through currancy speculation, but hard work [i.e. The Governator]. For how many is it just unearned leftovers from the real capital creators. |
| Posted by: Clomoling Ebbutle1219 2005-08-07 22:28 |
| #5 Let them throw good money after bad. Then they won't have it for later. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-08-07 22:17 |
| #4 The only thing the Democrats can say they accomplished is Civil Rights. 2b and I had a discussion a few days ago about this. It is my firm belief that if not for the Liberal Democrats bucking the "conservative" Democrats and the Republicans in the '60s the Civil Rights legislation would not have occured. Kennedy's "Ask Not" speech and his later "Place a Man on the Moon' speech were the apex of the Democratic Party. The only thing the SOB Lyndon Johnson ever did was the Civil Rights legislation. He lied us into a greater involvement in Vietnam and the Democrats went downhill fast from there. The had greatness in their grasp and threw it away. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-08-07 21:04 |
| #3 Somehow "Democratic think tank" seems like an oxymoron. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2005-08-07 20:07 |
| #2 If they can't get the message across with the NEA, colleges. universities, MSM, NPR and CPB, how do they think a measley $80 million on think tanks will change anybody's mind? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-08-07 19:51 |
| #1 Echo chambers for lefty academics. The left, given its firm control of US media and academia, already has an infrastructure orders of magnitude larger than anything to which conservatives can lay claim. These won't even be noticed. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2005-08-07 19:46 |