including unemployment extension, repealing DADT and ending tax cuts for the rich.
Where are the campaigns to call on Congress to do the right thing? Do people really expect that to happen when there are Democrats like
Kent Conrad and
Mark Pryor?
Consider what Bernie Sanders said
here.
the republicans have an agenda. they're pretty open and honest about it. they've rallied their troops. what the president and the democratic leadership and all of us have got to do is rally our troops. we need a tea party of progressives who are going to demand the democratic leadership and the president fight for the middle class and for working families.
The only rallying the troops this statement appears to have done is to rally people who want to believe he's denouncing the President. He said, "what the president and the
democratic leadership and all of us have got to do is rally our troops."
Bernie Sanders is a strong supporter of this President's policy achievements, from health care reform to Wall Street reform, and he knows more can be done. Everything is a foundation to be built on.
Rallying the troops does not mean attack the President and call him names, it means organizing and putting pressure on Senators and the President. It works, it worked with the foreclosure bill. It's not going to work in every instance, but that's how it is.