Reply #21: You miss the point entirely [View All]

[grantcart]

Its crying about a single congressman from one of the bluest seats in the country.



His crossing the aisle and voting with Michelle Bachman is giving permission to every blue dog to do the same thing when a progressive bill comes up.


All he did yesterday was weaken caucus discipline. It will cost us when we try and push more progressive legislation.


In the future when we want to enforce it against Democrats from red districts they will simply say "If you can't get people in super safe seats to follow caucus discipline then why should those of us from red districts do it".


When that happens we will all go crazy about how the blue dogs sold the caucus down the river.


If you want to keep them on progressive issues you have to show them how caucus discipline works. Say what you want, stomp your feet but on important legislation you vote with the caucus period.