Friday, November 10, 2006
Yugoslavia on the Potomac?
Tito kept Yugosalvia togteher after WWII, but after Tito was gone, there was shortly no more Yugoslavia. Serbs and Croats were at each other's throats.
The House's new Democratic majority is as divided today as Yugoslavia ever was. Just ask The Nation's John Nichols:
The largest ideological caucus in the new House Democratic majority will be the Congressional Progressive Caucus, with a membership that includes New York's Charles Rangel, Michigan's John Conyers, Massachusetts' Barney Frank and at least half the incoming chairs of House standing committees.
The caucus currently has 64 members -- up 14 since last year -- and its co-chairs, California Democrats Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee, say they expect that as many as eight incoming House Democrats will join the CPC.
It looks like the membership of the ultraliberal Progressive Caucus and the conservative Blue Dogs will be roughly equal int 2007, with each group containing roughly one-third of the House Democratic Caucus:
While the Blue Dogs are predicting that the membership of their caucus may grow from 37 to 44 members, and the New Democrats hope their membership will edge up from the mid-forties to over the 50 mark, the Progressives are looking at the prospect that their caucus -- the most racially and regionally diverse ideological grouping in the Congress -- could number more than 70 members once the new House is seated.
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