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I was on the No Labels blogger conference call yesterday mostly out of curiosity, wanting to see what they’re doing which, as it turns out, is quite a lot. Four senators and two members of the House were at their press conference yesterday lending support to their 12 point plan. It’s simple, makes sense, [...] No Labels is run by two major lobbyists with the backing of Mayor Bloomberg and other elites. I slammed them last week for their mushy ill-defined centrism. The New York Times just slammed them too. The notion that civility and nominal bipartisanship would accomplish any of the heavy lifting required to rebuild America is [...] Look, the hyper-partisanship needs to end, on this we all agree. But the approach of No Labels is the same old dreary centrist dogma that if two sides are fighting then the answer must lie in the center Well, no, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes the radicals are right and the centrists are wrong, like [...] The very form and structure of two-party politics ensures the marginalization and exclusion of Independents from the nation’s mainstream political discourse, allowing Republicans and Democrats to engage in their well-rehearsed charades. Hypocrisy is just one of the names for the game. The charge of partisan hypocrisy is one of the most common criticisms [...] |  | ||||
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