The
power of congressional leaders has been broken before. Most famously,
Uncle Joe Cannonà ‚¬"he of the Cannon Office building--got his head
handed to him in the early twentieth century. And Pelosi is no Joe Cannon.
Don't
be afraid of doing what you know is right because it would make your
female Speaker and black President look bad. They deserve to look bad
because they have shown that they can't be trusted to protect
ordinary Americans from predatory corporatists. What good are
Democrats, what good is a black President, or a female speaker if the
same ol' white boys corporate network is going to benefit at the
expense of the rest of us?
We don't need identity politics in Washington. We cannot point with pride to diversity in gender and skin color in the political leadership unless those leaders who appear diverse also bring to the table the diversity of experience and point of view that makes diversity more than cosmetic.
What good is calling yourself progressive if by your actions you show that you are just Republicans in slow motion?
Acknowledge your mistake and greet the bill that comes back from conference committee with the NO vote you should have given it the first time. Medicare-For-All would be Congress' biggest leap in progressivism since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Isn't it about time?
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