Rob Port
SayAnythingBlog
12/14/2011
A day ago I wrote about a scheduled meeting between Occupy Wall Street leadership and congressional Democrats. But now that the media has been looking into the meeting, suddenly Democrats canceled it.
Given the violence and filth the occupy protests have become notorious for, it’s not hard to imagine why.
A planned meeting today between the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Occupy Wall Street activists was scuttled late Tuesday after Roll Call inquired about it, highlighting increasing tensions between Democrats and the movement.
While Democrats are adopting the movement’s “99 percent” language, they are increasingly retreating from the protesters themselves and their anti-capitalist rhetoric. Some in the party view the Occupy activists — camped out in grubby tent cities around the country — as a potential liability in 2012.
I guess the Democrats hadn’t heard that the occupiers were Time’s people of the year.
