Posted on 03/29/2015 4:36:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Warren is best where she is: a valuable and influential senator who pressures the party from the left. No, it doesn’t come with a title, but it isn’t a small thing. In his eight years in the Senate, South Carolina’s former Sen. Jim DeMint was hugely powerful as an ideological leader, using his base in the conservative movement—and later, the Tea Party—to pull Republicans to the right during the 2012 presidential election. He enforced ideological discipline, and it worked. Warren doesn’t have to lead the Democrats—or run for president—to make the party more liberal. She can build power from the outside.
If liberals want someone to lead Senate Democrats, they should look to longtime Washington Sen. Patty Murray, who is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the caucus. She’s the dark horse in the race—behind New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who has been endorsed by Reid as well his potential competitor, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin—and has a solid record of progressive lawmaking, strong fundraising, and legislative savvy; in the last year, she’s negotiated a budget agreement with Rep. Paul Ryan and won a filibuster-proof majority for paid sick leave. She’s not perfect—some liberals will look askance at her tight connections to defense contractors and other big businesses—but compared with Schumer and his tight ties to Wall Street, she’s a vast improvement.
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Murray is as dumb as a rock.
If you are asking for God’s help, ask him to raise our Republic from the dead. Because it is indeed, already dead.
Please, please, please, please. She would be worth a half dozen seats all by herself.
Warren drools out of both sides of her mouth...
Murray only drools out of one side..
BOTH have full diapers..
So is UpChuck Screwmer.
Good going Patty!
He said something kinda sorta in support of Israel so he’s now persona non grata.
Great choice. She’s said to have the lowest IQ in the senate.
ROTFLOLOLOLOL!
Patty Murray...The mental giant that tells a Vancouver, WA high school class Osama bin Laden is popular in poor countries because he helped pay for schools, roads and even day care centers.
Might as well call Canada, see if Ann (Snow Bird) Murray is available.
Compared to her, a pet rock would be a precision instrument.
That’s what I’ve heard too. Where does that put IT expert H!
That’s what I’ve heard too. Where does that put IT expert H! ?
That's hitting below the belt. There's no need to go insulting rocks.
And yet the good citizens of WA have sent mophead to the Senate 4 times. There is something wrong with the water in this state, I think, at least on the West Side.
WA PingRE: "Murray is as dumb as a rock."
She's so dumb she doesn't even know that she has a free dental plan compliments of the US taxpayers!
Yes, this is mind boggling. She is borderline mentally retarded.
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