Excerpted from a Glenn Greenwald piece in Salon:
...If simply voting for more Democrats will achieve nothing in the way of meaningful change, what, if anything, will? At minimum, two steps are required to begin to influence Democratic leaders to change course: 1) Impose a real political price that they must pay when they capitulate to -- or actively embrace -- the right's agenda and ignore the political values of their base, and 2) decrease the power and influence of the conservative "Blue Dog" contingent within the Democratic caucus, who have proved excessively willing to accommodate the excesses of the Bush administration, by selecting their members for defeat and removing them from office. And that means running progressive challengers against them in primaries, or targeting them with critical ads, even if doing so, in isolated cases, risks the loss of a Democratic seat in Congress.
I've mentioned the "Blue Dogs" in previous posts.
There are 47 of them.
Unfortunately, my South Bay rep Jane Harman is one.
Read the rest of Greenwald's piece here:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/07/29/blue_dogs_die/#
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