It’s not a 100% rule, of course. I’m sure that there’s been a time or three when we have. But our mistake is in being too loyal*. Ask Senator Manchin how he feels about that right now:
Manchin asks, after Landrieu comes one vote short: "Would the republicans leave someone hanging like that on their side?"
— Nick Juliano (@nickjuliano) November 19, 2014
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*No, it’s actually a mistake sometimes. Usually when the person that we’re being loyal to doesn’t really deserve it.
This is not a hollow question, a rhetorical question.
This is a “what will you do for me in 2016?” question.
Poor guy seems to be feeling a bit lonely.
I’m floored that it didn’t pass.
An unpopular Obama would have vetoed it, and Reid wouldn’t have brought it back up before the end of the session.
It was an empty gesture, that came with no cost.
Are the Dems are so beholden to the Greens that they couldn’t even scrape together 10 votes for an empty gesture that the public overwhelmingly supports?
Or did her compatriots in the Democratic party hate her so much that they cheerfully handed her an anchor?
That strikes me as the sort of noise a politician makes when he’s thinking of switching parties …
No the GOP would never treat anyone on our side in a similar position* that way.
In fact we had a similar situation as it were in RI in 06. The NRSC spent millions of dollars in the primary beating back a conservative challenger to Lincoln “I’m not voting for Dubya” Chafee, a challenger who probably won more actual Republican votes in said primary then Chafee ( RI has an open primary and Chafee actively sought Donk votes)
They then spent millions of dollars in the General defending the indefensible** Chafee ( when said money could’ve been spent in MO and VA and we’d probably still have Sens Allen and Talent)
They even to some extent aided Joe Lieberman in his efforts to win re-election in CT after the Donks threw him under the bus. Even though Joe never switched parties afterwards.
* The GOP has thrown various Conservatives under the bus before though, namely Coburn, DeMint, Cruz, and Lee.
** dude voted to the Left of Ben Nelson and Mary “Louisiana Purchase” Landrieu. Later of course became a “independent Obama supporter” and “failed Democrat Governor”