Liberal lawmakers face new challenges

What is that old Chinese curse? "May you live in interesting times?"

Just call us properly cursed. If you thought 2006 was the year from hell, you ain't seen nothing, yet.

Hang in there, friends, we are in for one helluva ride!

Liberal lawmakers face new challenges - Yahoo! News:

There's one certainty for the Capitol's most liberal lawmakers now that Democrats will control Congress: They won't have to meet in the basement anymore.

'One time they put us in the most obscure, smallest meeting room in the farthest corner,' Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio (news, bio, voting record) said of life for progressive Democrats under GOP control.
Now, 'we should be able to score a regular and accessible meeting place.'

That may be the easy part.

Accustomed to pleading in obscurity for causes like universal health care, come January these progressives from Northern California, Massachusetts and elsewhere will be part of the congressional majority and in a position to actually do something about them.