"Dems and The Third Way"

[GreenPartyVoter]

The last place you'd expect to hear a politician promoting a centrist initiative to seek bipartisan solutions is at a political party convention.

But here was Indiana Democrat Senator Evan Bayh telling TIME that he's trying to form just such a group of legislators. These Democrats would reach out to GOP moderates in search of consensus -- and a voting block in the Senate -- for middle-of -the-road compromises to break gridlock.

Bayh, a leader of the New Democrat movement and the chairman of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), is calling his new group The Third Way. For you centrist aficionados, the term was trendy among middle-of-the-road stars of the '90s, like Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who used it to describe the shift in their political parties away from liberal-labor welfare dogma ad toward market-oriented social and economic policies.

Bayh insists The Third Way group he wants to form in the Senate won't be a think tank like the DLC, but rather a "results-oriented" voting bloc intended to achieve deadlock-breaking compromise bills on such critical issues as health care, education and the budget.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/03/dems.tm/index.html

[ulysses]

1. wonder what Bayh's idea of a "compromise"

on education **cough**vouchers**cough** would look like.

[LiberalTechie1337]

2. Damn you Evan Bayh

I'm actually considering voting for his GOP opponent, just to keep his sorry ass from misrepresenting our party