The Democratic Party better get its act together and quit kowtowing to DINOs in the White House and on Capitol Hill.  There should
be no DINOs in the party, period. 

And the Democratic Party better get serious about the jobs crisis, now. 

While organized labor is doing better than the Dems at highlighting the massive unemployment disaster, it needs to pressure the Democrats much, much more.

If not, the Dems and labor will lose public support big time.

Roger Bybee at In These Times writes:

"The last time that banks and corporations subjected hard-working Americans to this level of misery, the people responded by flocking in droves to the vibrant industrial union movement and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's efforts to establish a measure of economic justice in America.

"But more than 70 years later, working people are turning off to both the labor movement and the Democrats. It would appear that ordinary Americans are feeling that the forces they once counted upon in tough times—labor and the Dems—are not there to protect their most vital interests.

"A new survey by Pew shows an astonishing drop in public support for labor since the Great Recession's start, as Akito Yoshikane pointed out on this site yesterday.....

"While other polls and coffee-shop conversations all reveal that Corporate America—especially banks and health-insurance companies—is more despised than at any time in living memory, it seems clear that working people have expected far more action in their defense from the both Democrats and labor.

".....leading Democrats seem unwilling to frankly acknowlegde the extent of deeply-rooted unemployment and long-term human wreckage, as detailed here, here and here.

"So we are witnessing a parade of top Obama officials like Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner and Democratic Party hacks working to convince the American people that the economy is on the mend.

"It seems that the top Democrats are rolling out much the same message that they used so disastrously in 1994. As progressive activist Steve Cobble put it, the message amounted to, 'You're actually doing better than you think you are,' words that served only to inflame workers whose real wages were falling and who were watching more jobs relocated to Mexico.

"The absence of urgency about jobs begins at the top with President Obama, who still declines to push for a massive public-works program to create jobs.

"President Obama's address to the Business Roundtable—the elite of the elite of Corporate America—was anything but a declaration of a national jobs emergency and a call for major corporations to end their policies of job destruction  and the off-shoring of work to Mexico, China, India, and other low-wage nations. At this point, it appears that only an electoral wipeout or fierce pressure from labor will alter Obama's cautious, complacent course. Obama offered only a mild explanation of his economic policies.

"The main cause of labor's decline in popularity, while complex, is its too-close embrace of the Democrats, I would argue. The union movement has increasingly shifted its resources to lobbying Congress and state legislators, and has been tainted by its association with the Obama Administration's sleazy backroom deal-making with the insurers, drug companies, and job outsourcers. At the same time, labor has not left a visible impression of relentlessly fighting plant closings, foreclosures, and evictions at the local level across America.

"As a consequence, the public has been feeling cut adrift, with once-reliable allies no longer battling on their side. New AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka, despite making the right moves in his short tenure, must directly combat the public's perception by turning up the heat on the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats by mobilizing working people in the communities where they live."