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The Third Way--the DLC dressed up with a new name, but with apparently the same old Wall Street, deficit obsessed agenda.
Third Way Co-Founder Explains Op-Ed Criticizing Warren
CAITLIN MACNEAL DECEMBER 8, 2013, 4:33 PM EST723
Third Way Co-Founder Jim Kessler on Friday explained the group's Monday op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing a plan backed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to expand Social Security.
"That Social Security plan was the final moment for us," he said in an interview on Sirius XM with Ari Rabin-Havt, as recorded by the Huffington Post. "That Social Security plan had been out there but really languishing -- because Senator Warren has such a powerful compelling voice, she started talking about it, and it suddenly it became much more talked about and viable alternative."
Kessler said that the op-ed was not meant as a personal attack on Warren, but that she gave a popular voice to a plan that concerns Third way.
"She is a very compelling elected official and national figure," he said. "Her involvement in that particular bill, we just looked at it and said 'okay, this seems to be starting to get out of hand.'"
The group's op-ed incited a negative response from progressives and Warren herself. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee called on multiple Democrats to cut ties with Third Way, and Warren said the group was "flatly wrong" about its belief that Social security is insolvent.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/third-way-co-founder-explains-op-ed-criticizing-warren
CAITLIN MACNEAL DECEMBER 8, 2013, 4:33 PM EST723
Third Way Co-Founder Jim Kessler on Friday explained the group's Monday op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing a plan backed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to expand Social Security.
"That Social Security plan was the final moment for us," he said in an interview on Sirius XM with Ari Rabin-Havt, as recorded by the Huffington Post. "That Social Security plan had been out there but really languishing -- because Senator Warren has such a powerful compelling voice, she started talking about it, and it suddenly it became much more talked about and viable alternative."
Kessler said that the op-ed was not meant as a personal attack on Warren, but that she gave a popular voice to a plan that concerns Third way.
"She is a very compelling elected official and national figure," he said. "Her involvement in that particular bill, we just looked at it and said 'okay, this seems to be starting to get out of hand.'"
The group's op-ed incited a negative response from progressives and Warren herself. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee called on multiple Democrats to cut ties with Third Way, and Warren said the group was "flatly wrong" about its belief that Social security is insolvent.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/third-way-co-founder-explains-op-ed-criticizing-warren
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TPM: Third Way Co-Founder Explains Op-Ed Criticizing Warren (and makes it worse) [View all]
flpoljunkie
Dec 2013
OP
Don't know about now, but they were supposed to have closed their doors when the Koch $s dried up.
freshwest
Dec 2013
#9
my brain's all fuddled but didn't Sen. Warren request they voluntarily disclose
Voice for Peace
Dec 2013
#11
lazy me... I think I got it backwards.. she was asking Wall Street to disclose.
Voice for Peace
Dec 2013
#14
I googled and gave you some information. On asking the previously reported 'defunct' DLC?
freshwest
Dec 2013
#15
Yeah, anything that threatens their ability to whore for corporations is "out of hand."
polichick
Dec 2013
#21
"You have to wonder just what kind of people would screw millions of other people out of there SS...
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#8
Click "About Us" at top of page then click "Board of Trustees" from the menu.
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#22