Backbenchers... if Mark’s referring to Congress, they are those representatives and senators who are careerists but whom no one outside of their states or districts has ever heard of, quietly going along with the party line and pushing their own pork-barrel projects (who ever heard of Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords the Vermont Dairy Queen before he decided to give the Senate to the Democrats?).
Not Congress. Other talk radio guys. Mark calls them “the morning backbenchers.”