Since you asked…

Ok, so Donna Brazile and Mike McCurry are working for the telcos in the net neutrality fight, Donna Shalala is screwing workers at her new perch at the University of Miami, David Brooks is praising Hillary Clinton's centrism as she holds fundraisers with Rupert Murdoch, Paul Begala is calling organizers nose-pickers, George Stephanopoulos is making millions in a boring establishment show at ABC News, and I've heard rumors that Joe Lockhart is sending around corporate-funded memos to the media saying that Democrats shouldn't tackle the Medicare RX fiasco.

What's going on here?

Just business as usual, Matt. Folks with long enough memories typically viewed Bill as the best Republican President since Nixon, or maybe the last of the Rockefeller 'liberals'. That his administration failed to produce a strong roster of progressive champions should be no surprise.

Shalala's signature achievement at HHS was dismantling the Great Society safety net. Why would she be expected be expected to show sympathy for the interests of low income workers in another context? The rest, of course, are just flacks of various stripes, whose activities can be read with various degrees of cynicism as they angle for advantage in their dream of a future Clinton administration.

Darn that dream...