It's A Curious Thing To Be Accused Of Depressing Democratic Votes, When Elected Democratics...

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60. The White House AND the Congressional Party leadership KNOWS how to do this,

AND uses this POWER routinely...
AGAINST the Progressive Caucus and Liberal Wing of the Party.

Remember when President Obama shamed the CBC last year,
and demanded that they quit whining about issues like Civil Liberties and Inequality,
to "Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes..." and get behind HIS agenda?
Can you recall when President Obama has ever talked to the conservative wing of the Party with THAT tone
and THAT message?

Remember when President Obama went to Ohio and insulted Dennis Kucinich in front of his home voters
for holding out for a Public Option?
Has he ever gone to the home state of a Blue Dog and done the same?

The White House and Party Leadership knows HOW to use the Power of the Party to get their way.
The problem is WHO they use this power against.
This incident in which the White House needed a few more Democratic votes to pass the More Money for WAR bill n 2009 was revealing:

"From the jump, the White House and Democratic Leadership had the gloves off in the fight. Consider this report from last week:

Rep. Lynn Woolsey of California, a leader of the antiwar Democrats, said the White House is threatening to withdraw support from freshmen who oppose the bill, saying “you’ll never hear from us again.”

She said the House leadership also is targeting the freshmen.

It’s really hard for the freshmen,” she said. “Nancy’s pretty powerful.”

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/17-5