GREENWALD: The imperatives of political pressure

[yurbud]

2. I think the problem is there's more than one kind of astroturf

There's the obvious right wing, Citizens for Smokers Rights, kind, but the other kind is seemingly progressive groups that identify the right problems but someone how channel people's outrage into a rathole or end up sidestepping obvious problems like Blue Dog and DLC Democrats who vote so reliably with the GOP on core economic and foreign policy issues that even if the Democrats had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, Republicans would still have a de facto filibuster proof majority on those issues, which is partly why the Senate kept their mouths shut during the Bush years despite epic crimes.