Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma, says she wants to push a progressive agenda if the party takes the House on Nov. 7.
Posted on 10/29/2006 6:50:57 PM PST by SmithL
Washington -- It is an article of faith among many liberals that Democrats must advance a bold agenda if they win a majority in the House of Representatives next month.
From expanded health care and scaling back President Bush's tax cuts to withholding money from the Pentagon's war budget and investigating high crimes and misdemeanors, there is enormous pent-up energy to accomplish what could not be done during 12 years in the minority.
Yet as Democratic leaders, including would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, gear up for an increasingly plausible scenario, they face competing demands likely to temper their liberal ambitions.
The new Democratic majority, should it occur, will consist of a fresh crop of moderate and conservative members whose elections will have been won in part by distancing themselves from the party's progressive wing.
Faced with possible Republican control of the Senate, the president's veto pen and most likely a narrow edge in the House, many Democrats insist they must moderate their agenda and reach out to Republicans to expand their majority and improve their chances of winning the White House in 2008.
"The only thing worse than not taking back the House would be taking it back for one term,'' warned Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, an officer in the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 37 conservative and moderate House Democrats. "I think even the most 'liberal' person in our caucus understands that. There's folks who may not believe that things are going as fast as they want them to go, but they understand we have to be pragmatists."
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OH MY GOD, this is what awaits us if we lose both houses....GOD HELP US AND GET THE GOTV!!!!!!!! BROKEN GLASS, BROKEN GLASS...tomorrow I'll be casting my vote for Perry and the Republican party!! Even though I live in a RAT INFESTED city that ain't gonna keep me from voting for the pubs....(repeat after me...) BROKEN GLASS!
40 years of their "bold agenda" weakened America and came close to destroying the traditional middle class family which kept us stable.
I doubt it... More like a 'slap-fest'...
OMG!
Let there be no mistake the smallest of Rat victories will be hearlded by the MSM and the Liberals from coast to coast as a mandate for impeachment of Bush, U.S. Out of Iraq, Illegal Amnesty, Repeal of the terror surveillance program, Rights to terrorists, Gun Control, Homosexual agenda including in fact a bold new move to make homosexual marriage protected under the Constitution, Liberal judges slap on the wrist for terror murderers, fairness doctrine, and on and on and on..
"GOD HELP US AND GET THE GOTV!!!!!!!!"
I agree... it's terrifying :-(
This is an amusing statement. If this joker is really a "conservative", or a "moderate", why is he telling the "progressives" that if they hang in there long enough, they'll get what they want; especially since what Dem Liberals want is antithetical to what conservatives and moderates are supposed to want? Sort of exposes the myth of the "conservative" and "moderate" Democrat, since the "progressives" will get everything they want eventually.
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