[lbo-talk] Lieberman: "Roberts a decent guy"

John Lacny jlacny at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 21 14:26:59 PDT 2005


Nathan Newman asks:


> And how pray tell, can the Democrats exercise "party discipline"
> on Senators who choose to defy them? The Republicans who
> control executive and legislative power can discipline their
> caucus by threatening to deny them pork for their districts or
> otherwise threaten their reelection

Stop, Nathan! You are engaging in "the concrete analysis of concrete conditions," and that is not permitted in discussions like this. You'll do better analysis when you deal with reified entities like "the" Democratic Party, "the labor bureaucracy," and "political independence," rather than getting bogged down with stubborn, inconvenient fact.

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