
The latest Third-Way echo-chamber is back in the news thanks to some Presidential candidates who are playing along with their scheme.
No Labels, formed after the 2010 midterm elections, is asking candidates to embrace four broad goals related to job creation, the federal budget, energy independence and entitlements, promote them in the campaign and promise to work with a bipartisan group in Congress on at least one of them within 30 days of taking office.
No Labels was a progressive reaction to the TEA Party movement. The TEA Party message was Taxed Enough Already. Don’t take over health care. Stop the spending. And how about less government spending, and by extension less government interference. No Labels came to the defense of big government, soft-selling it under the cover of calming, can’t-we-all-just-get-along, Third Way language. And Republicans continue to give it legitimacy.
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