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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jul 21 15:49:26 PDT 2005


John Lacny wrote:


>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.

Wait a minute - the Dem leadership can't cut off campaign funding for the disobedient, or run opponents against them in primaries?

Doug



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