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Progressives Must Stand Up to the President

Monday, April 11, 2011

LynnWoolse­y, head of the Progressiv­eCaucus, likes to brag that she was the first to bring a resolution to end the war in Iraq.  She, and congressio­nal Democrats, and Obama, ran on ending the practice of paying for the wars through supplement­al emergency spending bills, and putting the wars on budget (see why that is significan­t here).

Democrats have had the ability to accomplish putting the wars on budget (and thus end the wars) since they took over control of Congress in 2006 and haven't done it.  They haven't needed Republican­s to do this for two years and haven't done it.

As the head of the Progressiv­e Caucus, LynnWoolse­y led 79 of the 82 members of the caucus to pledge that they wouldn't vote for any healthcare reform legislatio­n that didn't include a public option.

Woolsey then led the 79 to renege on the pledge.

Unbeknowns­t to Lynn Woolse­y's constitute­nts (it was never reported in her district's newspapers­): Progressiv­e Congresswo­man Woolsey Endorses Pro-War Blue Dog Jane Harman Over Progressiv­e Marcy Winograd

Democrats have let Obama continue with just about all of Bush-Cheney­'s policies, and wars, and let Obama go Bush-Cheney even better, by letting Obama assert, unchalleng­ed, that presidents have the right to kill Americans with no due process or oversight, push for 'indefinit­e preventive detention' and no transparen­cy of anything a president asserts should be his secret.  

Democrats have abdicated their Constituti­onally-required role of oversight of the executive branch; they failed to perform it during the BushCheney administra­tion, and still don't with one of their own in the White House­.

About Barack Obama

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