MB Civic

The Brown/Kaufman break up the banks amendment went down 61-33, with 27 Dems voting w the dark side – here’s Tomasky in his Guardian blog ..

We have many pundits in this town who bemoan the way “both parties” have moved to the extremes. But on the question of the banks, and in fact on many others, the Senate Democratic caucus just ain’t that liberal. This vote should demonstrate to liberals that the conditions for rapid change just don’t exist in this country and that part of the task is to create those conditions.

among Dem dark side voters are Kerry, Shumer, Gillibrand, Lautenberg, Menendez, Dodd, Reed (RI) and Shaheen (NH) – mab .. read more