The long game keeps becoming longer.

I mean, how many years do you have to wait for universal health insurance?

President Harry Truman proposed it in the 1940s.

How many years do you have to wait for an increase of minimum wage from the paltry $7.25 an hour

federal before it goes to $15 an hour and improves the wages of 25 million workers, quite a few of them would

vote just on that issue enough.

And just say, go vote for a raise.

It's long overdue and you've earned it.

It's lucky you're not getting back pay for being cheated.

So the argument is absurd on the evidence.

The progressives get nothing by going along. They get nothing.

I'll give you an example. There were 32 members of the Freedom Caucus on the Republican side.

They dominated Speaker Boehner. They basically said, don't mess with us. Here are our demands.

If you don't accept our demands, we're pulling

a plug on you, 32 votes. Well, there are a lot more than that, progressive votes on a Democratic side.

But, you know, Pelosi is a genius at dividing and ruling, and she's a genius at punishing.

And what the progressives have failed to understand is they're going there to serve the people.

There's nothing else they should demand.

No special assignments and this and that.

They get these special assignments and they do nothing.

Nothing.

What are they done in terms of getting hearings, long overdue hearings, on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, using the opportunity of Israeli and Palestinian peace advocates, which have never been given a voice at a congressional hearing in the last 60 years?

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