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From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
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Subject: Re: O'Neill Shifts on Grenada
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Date: Mon, 14-Nov-83 18:26:07 EST
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Yeah, I'll comment on O'Neill's flip-flop.  The Democrats should have two
priorities:
		(1) Defeat Reagan
		(2) Dump Tip

Anyone who considers Tip O'Neill representative of the left is so far right
as to have serious visibility problems much beyond Howard Baker.  Tip is
bankrupt.  He represents the old-line, anti-Communist, huge bureaucracy Democrats.
He stood up to Reagan for political reasons: he figured that 60% opposition to
U.S. intervention in Central America would carry over to Grenada.  When he found
out it didn't, he flipped.  If tomorrow Gallup published a poll showing increasing
opposition to Grenada, Tip would be out flopping again.  That's a complete lack
of vision and principles.

The position of Speaker is an enormously powerful one.  With Tip out, more
progressive forces in the Democratic Party would get their bills introduced,
their committee hearings approved, their voices heard.  Until Tip goes, the
Democrats will be a sad hulk of a party.

Mike Kelly
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