Page 572 - Third Way News Today

Yourks who are you funding think-tank wise? they havent done that t. leaders of third way i think they said les than 1% of our funding comes from wall street. but what they were also left opened was the possibility that a lot of money comes from people who make their money on wall street. its not directly coming. it is still in a way wall street money. >> what strikes me about the internal democratic debate versus the internal republican debate in washington is that the dewitt on the left seems ...

Steadfast about these incredible economic views. here you have democrats -- democrats, the point is the democrats win. we won. we still wont say hey, lets actually preserve the social safety net that made this country great. >> democrats are winning outside of washington. senator warren is the only one of senator warren on capitol hill. when you look on the right, the tea party, you can loose, since 2010, there are a lot of tea party people on capitol hill. unless and until senator wore ren has ...

Party rhetoric. it was followed by victory. you have the rhetoric. the question is whether people can be elected to washington. >> the tea party the power of the tea party the president talked about this in his interview, he talked ability how they scare, the tea party has scared republicans in republican primaries. solet talk about third way here. give me an idea first of all. we say this term third way, here are democratic members of congress two are affiliated which, the honorary co-chairs, t...

Senator wore ren told huffington post third way is flatly wrong and said they have an undebatable sal vanl crisis him we could make if system financially stable for a century and make laernl adjustments and make it pay more for seniors who rely on it. the conversation for far too long has been about cutting benefits a bill little or a lot. >> that is flatly the wrong dewitt to have in mind. she challenged bmpgs to be transparent about donations to think tanks like third way. warren said this wee...

Founder of the democratic leadership council. and one of the things he said, hes never been a huge alloy of president obamas. one thing he said, he feels throughout obamas presidency, he has been a counter puncher was his word. because he has always been reacting, whether to the tea party or the left or to various events, he has failed to really outline a strong and unifying ideology for the democratic party will you see in that speech, he says, i kind of walked the line between the economic pop...

United states and everywhere around the world, totally deserved for nelson mandela, but i cant help but think how recent it was in history nelson mandela was a contested political figure. we were playing some of the clips in the intro. how do we get from the late 1980s, early 1980s, we have william f. buckley in 1990 saying this will be a day of infamy, maybe. how do we get from there to here? whats happened? >> part of whats happened is mandela, himself, was so effective in demonstrating he was...

Its interesting in our own history, there are so few times when progressive people feel as though they were a part of something that actually led for the a change, a concrete change, not only the release of mandela but change in government and the end of apartheid. we played a role in that in a small and significant way in this country. >> we have the political system and the debate over the sangszs in 1986 that played out in this country. more broadly, what were especially in the early days of ...

Democrats have done a pretty good job of keeping their intra-party fighting out of the headlines until recently, and i think if you look at the latest polling, democrats are really frustrated -- particularly young people -- with the president. and this has been brewing for a long time. theyre upset that president obama never closed gitmo, never got the public option, theyre upset about the nsa spying. but the key element of president obamas base, young people, are starting to break. so youre sta...

Iran. i do think there is in some cases skepticism in terms of negotiating withgroups. on the other hand, and ive seen that -- seen this with some of the potential 2016 republican presidential candidates, theyre looking for a sort of third way, a midway between your traditional republican defense hawk and your democratic dove. and theyre trying to talk about being strong militarily but being willing to rely on discussion and diplomacy. >> final issue, china. vice president biden over there, thes...

Third way and former clinton white house deputy assistant. chris plante is here from the chris plante radio show. the redistribution of wealth has always been a central feature of the law and lies at the heart of the insurance market disruption driving political attacks this fall. they say you cannot have a fair market without redistribution from people. the times talks about how losers will be created with the law. losers and winners. matt, thats not how it was billed. >> no. its not. i like th...