Congressional Democrats who vote out of line with their more liberal constituencies will face some tough times in the next election cycle.
With the goal of using "primaries to hold incumbents to account for voting with corporate interests instead of their constituents," a group of grassroots activist organizations, including Daily Kos, have come together to form the Accountability Now PAC.
Accountability Now has a "single guiding principle," said co-founder Glenn Greenwald, "of challenging the institutional power structures that make it so easy, so consequence-free for Congress to open up the government coffers for looting by corporate America while people across the country are losing their jobs and their basic constitutional rights while unable to afford basic health care."
According to the PAC's Executive Director Jeff Hauser, Accountability Now will "help create the political space needed to enable President Obama to make good on the many progressive policies he campaigned on - such as getting out of Iraq, ensuring access to affordable health care for every man, woman and child, restoring our constitutional liberties and ending torture."
Supporting the Accountability Now PAC are Daily Kos, MoveOn, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), ColorofChange.org, Democracy for America, 21st Century Democrats, and BlogPAC.