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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Blue Doghouse?


Did you know that the Congressional Progressive Caucus now has 71 members, compared to the 47 members of the more conservative Democratic Blue Dogs? Of course you did! That's because we are being endlessly barraged with stories in the media about how the Progressive Caucus now controls the show, how the Party must tow the line lest it alienate the Progressives, how the overwhelmingly popular positions that got so many Progressives elected to office, positions on ending our illegal immoral catastrophic wars and occupations, providing universal single-payer healthcare, facilitating workers' right to collective bargaining, taxing wealth rather than work, funding education for all citizens, and shifting immediately to a renewable energy economy now define the commonsense by which any viable politician must now orient herself should she seek to appear serious. Oh, wait, exactly the opposite is the case, except for a few stories in which this state of affairs tends to be portrayed as some sort of sinister plot to "take over" the real America by realigning public discourse to better reflect the actual concerns of majorities of real Americans. Huh. Weird.

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