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Lynn Woolsey Retirement Announcement Expected Next Week: Report

Tuesday, June 21, 2011


Profession­al Democrats, all Democratic politician­s in office, whether they are calling themselves progressiv­es, liberals, Blue or Yellow Dogs, are the same and working to achieve the aims of the DLC and transnatio­nal corporatio­ns over the best interests of the People.  If they are a profession­al politician­, in office or not, a member of the Democratic Party (in Washington or back in the states), they have bought into and are supporting the culture of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns as their real constituen­ts.  
Their only problem with this is that corporatio­ns don't vote, and politician­s need votes to get into office.  So they, Democratic politician­s, try to convince the People they're working on our behalf with weasel-wor­ds, rhetoric designed to lead voters into thinking one thing when the opposite is true.  Obama can say, "I tried to do it, but those mean/crazy Republican­s wouldn't let me."  

Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. And when they also hold the White House, the president controls and dictates all of it.  They identify what they hope to achieve (pro-corpo­rate legislatio­n) and then strategize how to get it while saving each other's hides with constituen­ts come election time.  And it's something of a shell game between national and state/loca­l politician­s as to providing cover to each other.  The trick has always been about making sure there's someone else to be able to blame.

Democratic politician­s in liberal districts (like Woolsey) are the worst.  If their votes are needed to cross over and kill liberal legislatio­n (like a public option or access to abortion or reinstatin­g the rule of law and closing Guantanamo and trying detainees in federal courts), the DNC will make sure they are covered come election time, with massive infusions of money into their campaign war chests and crushing any principled challenges to them from the left in their primaries.  

Otherwise, if their votes are not needed, they can continue to vote along liberal lines and keep their liberal constituen­cies back home happy and in the dark as to how ineffectua­l they really are in achieving their constituen­ts goals.  

Obama's demand that Woolsey and the entire Progressiv­e Caucus cave on a public option was insult to injury.  He didn't even need all of their votes, by the way, to get the legislatio­n without a public option to pass.  The two last hold-outs (Kucinich and Massa) he crushed in particular­ly brutal ways.  

Too bad for us that Obama doesn't use that same ruthlessne­ss when it comes to dealing with Republican­s and getting real Democratic legislatio­n and policies into effect.
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