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In reply to the discussion: Thank you, Dennis, for everything. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)when the 'pugs had their majority.
And the Bush veto from 2006 to 2008, followed by the filibusters from 2008 on, made effectiveness pretty much impossible for anyone else.
You really can't point to anyone who was actually progressive who was able to be effective in any of those periods. The whole party was totally powerless.
And it isn't effectiveness to pass compromise legislation. None of the compromises were even half a loaf. Most were a slice at best. Incrementalism isn't effectiveness, and it isn't real change.
Kaptur didn't do anything that was any MORE effective than Dennis. Even Teddy the K was helpless during the period of Dennis' Congressional career.
You have no better model of effectiveness to point to at all, really. NOBODY in our party got a damn thing done in the last fourteen years in Congress.