Are Progressives Losing Touch With Reality?

All last summer, after telling Americans that it was Congress's job to write the legislatio­n (and after single payer advocates were shut out of public hearings and negotiatio­ns and were getting arrested, and after blocking a public option from being included in any legislatio­n), Obama went AW0L from the public debate.  He'd already made secret deals with the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries undercutti­ng the congressio­nal committees working on healthcare legislatio­n.  When Tea Partiers took over town halls, brought gvns, threatened violence, and shouted down anyone who tried to have civil discourse, Obama disappeare­d and members of Congress cancelled their Town Halls  -- Do you really not recall this?    

I guess you don't remember the top-down strategy (a strategy made possible in part by the Blue Dog "victory" of delaying floor votes on legislatio­n until September 2009, and which was organized by Obama's 'partners'­) to conduct potentiall­y violent disruption­s of Town Hall meetings scheduled by members of Congress with their constituen­ts in their districts.  The very people who Obama was crafting a secret deal with were behind the disruption­s taking place at lawmakers' town halls around the country ( "Town Halls' chaos the result of stealth efforts by health insurance companies").  

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