GOP's War on Working Americans: Our Best Path to Victory

You cannot run for public office, you do not rise within a political party or get support from a political party's machine either locally or nationally unless you surrender to the hierarchy of power.  It's the only reason there are political parties.  

Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. And when your party also holds the White House, all party members do what the president wants.  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. 

Those in liberal districts get to talk a good game about being champions of the People, but when push comes to shove, if their votes are needed to cross over and k!ll liberal legislatio­n (like a public option or access to ab0rtion), 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.

How they tag team us:

Lynn Woolsey, 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 didn't need Republican­s to do it. 

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
 
As the head of the Progressiv­eCaucus, LynnWoolse­y 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.  Even when Obama didn't need Kucinich, the last hold-out of the caucus, Obama wanted and needed to break the back of public optioners so it wouldn't be revisited during his term in office -- He put the screws to Kucinich until he caved.  

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