By Michael J. Smith on Saturday March 28, 2009 11:43 PM
... a flea,Having recently dipped a toe into the cesspit of intellectual disgrace that is the Center For American Progress (CAP), I found myself wondering about what ever happened to Third Way, another component of the Fromsphere that I once took an interest in for anecdotal reasons (I knew a junior woodchuck who used to work there; he's CIA now).
Has lesser fleas that on him prey,
And these have smaller fleas that bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Since my toe was already beshat, I went and dipped it again, at Third Way's site, and pulled out this plum:
Third Way Statement on the Retirement of Al From, as Chairman of the Democratic Leadership CouncilImagine my delight. There are not only "progressives", which is to say reactionaries in all but name; there are also "moderate progressives" -- people who can split a difference too small for ordinary human eyes to see.Al From’s retirement from the DLC and the transition of the DLC/PPI after twenty years of success means the passing of the torch to the next generation in moderate progressive politics.
The real number line is a wonderful thing. You can get arbitrarily close to zero and still be the lesser evil!
Comments (2)
Everything's upside down in a liberal empire, Alice!
Michael on Sunday morning . . . perfect!!
Posted by senecal | March 29, 2009 10:24 AM
Posted on March 29, 2009 10:24
It's like the fallacy of imagining using only half a tank of gas at a time--in the world of logicians you never run out. It turns out however motor engine, which is not so subtle, needs a finite quantity to function.
Posted by Peter Ward | March 29, 2009 9:24 PM
Posted on March 29, 2009 21:24