'Heroes' of Senate liberalism

The Washington Times ^ | March 5, 2006 | EDITORIAL

[ConservativeStatement]

With a dozen or so U.S. senators giving serious consideration to running for their party's 2008 presidential nomination, voters will want to know how the political ideologies of these potential candidates rank among their colleagues. Arguably, voters can best discern the relative ideologies by comparing the votes they cast on identical issues. Both the nonpartisan National Journal and the liberal Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) have recently released their 2005 voting guides, ranking the ideological purity of members of Congress. Herewith is a review of those rankings among the five Democratic senators -- Evan Bayh of Indiana, Joe Biden of Delaware, Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Russell Feingold of Wisconsin and John Kerry of Massachusetts -- who are likely to seek the Democratic presidential nomination.

[SkyPilot]

The words "Heroes" and "Liberalism" are an oxymoron like Jumbo Shrimp.

[ConservativeStatement]

Yup, I think the headline writer agreed; hence, the quotation marks. :-)

[hubbubhubbub]

"Both the nonpartisan National Journal and the liberal Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)"

LOL, as soon as you see the word "nonpartisan" in a sentence in front of a noun, you can be assured that it is anything but nonpartisan.

[downtownconservative]

Last year, Mrs. Clinton was determined to be more liberal than 84 percent of the Senate (economic issues); 83 percent (social); and 66 percent (foreign policy.

You can always count on a good Rat to act in self-preservation as opposed to principle. Scrupples and values are such obstacles to power.

[Supernatural]

Or "Intelligent Imbecile", as the Three Stooges used to say.