Democratic caucus in the House is the Progressive Caucus, which is full of Democrats who have been making correct, progressive decisions since Warren was still voting for Reagan and Bush. To pretend they do not exist and she's swimming alone against some great tide of Democratic opposition is poppycock and just the sort of hyperbole that is streaming out of her boosters, but never, ever out of Warren. She' never make such a claim because it is offensive to dozens and dozens of Democrats, many of them more liberal than Warren and most of them with a longer track record as Democrats than Warren's.

I hear ya though. The republican wing of the Democratic party is just drowning out the good ones.

Another fact is that my Representative, Peter DeFazio along with still current members Maxine Waters and Bernie Sanders established the Progressive Caucus in 1987, while Elizabeth Warren's' honesty, integrity, boldness, and value system' was still a Republican touting Republican policy on all fronts. So telling the story as if she's Emma Goldman among the Running Dog Lackeys of the Machine is just a bit much.
I would heartily suggest the end of slamming or ignoring other good Democrats. If you have to pretend that people who were founding the Progressive caucus while your candidate was voting for George Bush do not exist or are not as liberal as she is, perhaps that is for lack of something meaningful to say.
I will tell you this. When I speak directly to Warren's office or ask about her through channels, the answers I get are far more pleasing to me than the message I get from those who are attempting to boost her candidacy. What I'm saying is that the truth is pretty good, and thus the bullshit tactics are not necessary.
Case in point. She was a Reagan supporter. Reagan was a bigot and an idiot who ignored the AIDS crisis and did not say a word about it until there were more than 20,000 dead. Warren voted for him a second time when there were over 5,000 dead and he had done nothing, said nothing. I mention this on DU, and her boosters either bring up Hillary who I don't care about, or they attempt to minimize AIDS and the overall rottenness of Reagan. 'Was AIDS really that bad?' one of them asked. It pissed me off so much that I picked up the phone to DC.
On the other end was no evasion about the shit head decisions of the past. There was in fact a set of actual current actions Warren is taking which are specifically redemptive for some of the Republican shitheady. She is aware she was wrong, her mind is changed and also she is the sort who knows she should do something to right the times she was wrong.
Here, her supporters made me want to vomit. There, I found a Senator I can respect and might come to really strongly support. Also a Senator who does not see herself as alone on the Hill at all. Because she's not.
So whatever. Obama. Hillary. Learn to talk about Warren when people ask about Warren. Learn to talk about Congress when people talk about Congress. It's a step in the right direction.
Negative campaigning is a giant mistake, almost always. In primaries it is deadly shit. It signals weakness, meanness and an absence of strong material about your own candidate. If you couple that with 'Was AIDS really that bad' and calling other Democrats dinos when your candidate was a long time Republican and you won't talk about that....you wind up doing great harm to your choice at the very time when what you need to be doing is expanding her universe of possible supporters, alienating no one.
But whatever. You guys have a narrative. I do not see it as helpful to Warren, nor to Democrats. But that's just my opinion.

about the EXACT same thing, so I posted it.

I hate that I helped elect another democratic president that will sign deregulations for wall street AGAIN. allowing another crash down the road. This is not why I'm a democrat.

I'm a democrat for people like Elizabeth Warren. And unlike the author, I believe in fairy tales. At least until March. If she hasn't entered the race by then, I will put the nail in & hang up my rainbow.

...Maybe you should pen something for Huffpo since you feel that strongly about it.

You went after the Democratic party as a whole, he schooled you on the facts.

If you cannot see what you did, you should not be posting on a discussion board.

I won't even get into the tripe of the article in the OP.

unless it's about Hillary.

Sid

building a strawman. There are some great progressive Democrats in Congress but they don't speak out very loud, like Sen Warren does, which is essential at this time. We have to win the hearts and minds of the general public.

essentially Honest & Courageous in a Cowardly & Centrist Democratic Party? At least those of us who Disagree with the status quo in agreement with EW?
The major parties have become corporate factions, imo.

I thought they have become the Caving Democrats.

It doesn't really compute.