Robert Kuttner: Progressive Hardball
House Blue Dogs and pro-Wall Street "New Democrats" in the House, as well as individual turncoats in the Senate like Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Max Baucus, and Tim Johnson, have demonstrated that they can play hardball. Progressive Democrats are actually a majority of the Democratic caucus in both houses. It's time they played a little hardball, too. If Democrats can start sounding like Democrats again, they'll have a better shot at holding onto their majority in Congress next November.

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