Three reasons the "Wellstone Left" deserves a seat at the White House Policy Table. [View All]

[John Q. Citizen]

We earned it at least as much as anybody else.
The democratic wing of the Democratic Party backed Obama in state after state, providing significant foot-power and money. Without our support, there is absolutely no doubt that Obama wouldn't have triumphed in a number of states that he did. We delivered our vote deep and wide.

2.Obama is claiming to invite everyone who cares about the country to participate in changing what's wrong and working to make things better. How can he truly claim this if he denies the left a seat at the table? In the short term, he may get away with this, but in the long run people will question the exclusion. And how can one rule from the center without both a left and a right? Excluding the left will make ruling from the center impossible. It will undercut his message of inclusion and moderation.

3. The left has some very practical and well thought out solutions to many of the problems facing this country. By excluding the left from a seat at the table, we will be practicing non- pragmatic ideologically based government. The government needs the left's energy and ideas. It's the patriotic and American thing to do.