In their defeat at last night`s sweep of the Home by the Tea Party-fueled G.O.P. progressives are assessing just how this happened.
"We should have been more bold," Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Lynn Woolsey told Pacifica Radio`s Mitch Jeserich last night. Woolsey suggested that if the Democrats had started out of the gate with a jobs bill in 2009, Democratic fortunes might not have fallen to their current lows.