... it is both disheartening and illuminating to realize that the progressives in Congress have no true commitment to anything but putting on a show.
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Few organizations resisted the urge to whip for the very bill they asked members of Congress to oppose last August during the fundraising drive for the public option. The entire progressive movement devolved into complete message incoherence as the unions announced their willingness to step outside of the Democratic party in order to enforce corporate deals within it. ...
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... The thing I have learned above all else in this campaign is that the corporate control of government is much more extensive than I ever imagined, and the tools we have to fight its influence are ineffective.
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... In the end, what we learned is that we can’t count on members of Congress in either party to do anything but play their part in “villain rotation”
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