re: #373 sagehen

Also, the coastal/urban Dems (the party’s activist base) need to quit their damn whining about how Ben Nelson and Evan Bayh and Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Manchin and Claire McCaskill aren’t liberal enough. For fuck’s sake, if they were liberal enough to please New Yorkers and Californians they wouldn’t ever have been elected in their states.

A red state Dem senator who’s only a hairsbreadth to the left of a blue state Rep like Mark Kirk… is still a vote for who’ll be majority leader, and who’ll be committee chairs. Who gets to schedule hearings and what legislation ever comes to the floor.

Joe Manchin, ugh: we don’t need people who will trash the rest of their party whenever possible to demonstrate how independent they are. But sure, I’ll take all the McCaskills we can get.