Oh, So Now they're "Kings of the hill"? I call bullshit

[Dinger]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/27/zelizer.new.kings.of.washington/index.html


I don't even want to comment. They don't deserve me typing their names on my computer.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. This is just disgusting.

I want my party back.

[Dinger]

2. Me Too (nt)

[Blue_In_AK]

7. We actually had people up here whining

because Mark Begich didn't hold out for goodies like Ben Nelson did. That's the "Ted Stevens was my Senator" mentality for you.

[Mz Pip]

3. Extortionists

would be a better title.

[wtmusic]

4. I think you're missing the point

They are four senators who are powerful by virtue of the fact they are necessary for a supermajority vote to end cloture in a partisan standoff. In that respect the op-ed is true.

[Dinger]

5. I'd Unrec This Myself If I Could (nt)

[valerief]

6. Why do these Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse hate America so much? nt

[madrchsod]

8. they get paid well for hating americans

they owe their allegiance to their corporate sponsors

[BbeltAtheist]

9. Of course they are

This doesn't mean it is morally right, just that realistically they are in the very center of the political spectrum of American politics right now.

I can't stand that these "blue dogs" hold so much power, but I do believe we shouldn't be in denial about it.

[clear eye]

11. Well I guess the progressives in the House will just have to change that.

If obstructing is the only thing that gets WH respect...

[clear eye]

10. Someone posted earlier that this is why progressives in the House

need to demand changes in the Senate HCR bill or threaten to vote against it--and mean it. I thought the poster might be exaggerating. Now I don't.