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And I'm going to head you off at the pass here, before you insist that the solution is getting more liberals/progressives into Congress (and I've probably been active politically for more decades than you've been alive).

#1 - No matter what the liberal/progressive politicians' rhetoric, they take their marching orders from the top.  From the head of the Democratic Party, which in this case is Obama.  Take the Progressive Caucus.

As the head of the Progressive Caucus, Lynn Woolsey led 79 of the 82 members of the caucus to pledge that they would not vote for any healthcare reform legislation that didn't include a public option.  
Woolsey then led the 79 to renege on the pledge.

Lynn Woolsey 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 didn't need Republicans. 

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

'Progressives' like Woolsey have let Obama continue with just about all of BushCheney's policies, and wars, and let Obama go BushCheney even better, by letting Obama assert, unchallenged, that presidents have the right to k!ll Americans with no due process or oversight, push for 'preventive detention' and no transparency of anything a president asserts should be his secret.

And the latest betrayal, treachery by our own?  An obvious effort to prevent public dissent, end OWS and all political protest:  House sets up 6:30 vote on WhiteHouse's 'trespasser' bill.

Goodbye First Amendment - 'Trespass Bill', Passed 388-3, Makes Protest Illegal

 HR 347 outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it, anywhere in the country.

How did your representative vote?  The answer may shock you (Democrats are no better than Republicans).
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