Progressives say go big and make life hard for GOP

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19. Failing to achieve would be disastrous. The naivete seems

to lie largely in not being able to understand that most people couldn't kick over a table piled with important things the people really need, walk away with nothing, and feel they'd done the only right thing.

That peculiar ability is unique to them -- and to their counterparts in the Republicans' far-right Freedom Caucus, who are famous for sabotaging Boehner's and McCarthy's plans and control of their caucus. We don't mind that on the other side, of course.

Rep. Jayapal has only been in congress a couple years, and I imagine Pelosi and the rest of Jayapal's colleagues will help bring her and her allies safely through this brinksmanship. But people here really need to understand the potential for disaster and that if everything went wrong they could carry out their threat. They made it because it's not impossible for them.