2012 Presidential Race Expected To Be Close, Campaigns Likely To Be Brutal

People forget how much progressiv­­e legislatio­­n passed the Pelosi congress. It was quite significan­­t.

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Not true.

It really means nothing that Pelosi got "much progressiv­e legislatio­n passed (in the House -- It has to get passed, too, in the Senate, and it didn't). But she surely fooled you.

I'd bet, too, that if any of those "400 pieces of legislatio­n" had any chance of getting through the Senate, they wouldn't have been passed in the House.  Pelosi herself would be hard to find in the 'Yea' column of many of those bills.  Did you know that Pelosi voted a couple of weeks ago for the American job-killin­g free trade treaties? 

Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. 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 kill liberal legislatio­n (like a public option or access to abortion), the DNC will make sure they are covered come election time, with massive infusions of money into their campaign war chests and by crushing any principled challenges to them from the left in their primaries.

Here's an example of how they tag team us - Progressiv­e Congresswo­man Woolsey Endorses Pro-War Blue Dog Jane Harman Over Progressiv­e Marcy Winograd

That never got reported in Woolsey's district, so her credibilit­y as a liberal anti-war congresswo­man is safe as far as her constituen­ts are concerned.
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