1.0 link 48907 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/dems-driving-triangulatio_b_48907.html The term "triangulation" in politics means a set of leaders trying joining with their opponents to pass measures that run counter to those leaders' own supporters. Typically, triangulation is practiced by presidents against their own parties in Congress, with the master of triangulation being President Bill Clinton who, among other things, rammed welfare reform and NAFTA "over the dead bodies" of rank-and-file Democratic lawmakers and the progressive movement. Can congressional leaders pull the same move? Unfortunately, we're going to...

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