We were just talking in our local Progressive Dem Group in my state about Harry Reid and newly elected PBO and what happened when our Dem Party cut out of states like NC and left the newly activist Dems in the ditch. Howard Dean's "50 State Strategy" had worked and a purple state like NC got him elected. Then it all fell apart with lack of support by Dem Party Leadership from the top. And Harry Reid is a disgrace, imho, that he took this long to use the Filibuster. But, maybe it wasn't Harry's fault but that Dem Party Corporate rulers pulled the plug because Dem Activists were too dangerous. They sure didn't care much for "Occupy Wall Street" or other efforts against Keystone, Monsanto and TPP. They didn't care that activists were trying to work to get the Diebold Type Voting Machines out of their states and work for Paper Ballot and Verifiable Voting. We were even holding our own alternate Progressive Conventions to get our ideas into the Dem State Party platform. 
WE SHALL SEE. But at least it's being admitted what they did even though it's mostly too late for 2014 when the Repugs have locked things down by gerrymandering as they swept through in 2010 because we Dems didn't have the backing and support we needed in those states which got taken over in their State Legislatures by the Alec/Koch Republicans.
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"If President Obama had shown more courage in the early years of his presidency, or if Senate Democrats had deployed the nuclear option sooner, she would be a federal appellate judge today. Many Court watchers, including myself, would choose her if we could place only one person on the Supreme Court."
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