Where have all the liberal lions gone?
Since the deaths of Massachusetts’s Ted Kennedy and Minnesota’s Paul Wellstone, the Senate has not had a signal, outstanding liberal voice. The liberal faction even takes a back seat to conservative Dems who hold the threat of defecting and costing the party its majority on key votes for gun control, taxes and spending. The conservative Democrats stopped the Democratic majority in the Senate from passing a budget for the last four years for fear it might be attacked as “liberal.” …
Standing behind Reid are two contenders for the mantle of new generation liberal lion: New York’s Charles Schumer and Illinois’ Dick Durbin. Both are members of the “Gang of Eight,” which unveiled a comprehensive immigration proposal last week.
But both Majority Whip Durbin and Senate Policy Committee Chair Schumer are busy simply trying to hold their 55-member majority together in support of Obama’s agenda. Their focus is on keeping tabs on potential defections from conservative Democrats such as North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, Indiana’s Joe Donnelly, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Montana’s Jon Tester. …
There is no current Democratic senator close to commanding the kind of stature or authority that Kennedy did. Liberalism does not have a powerful advocate in the halls of Congress today and it shows.
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Teddy Kennedy? Is liberal lion a euphemism for fall-down drunk?
hepcat on February 4, 2013 at 9:25 PM
“Lion” is not the usual animal I associate with liberals.
YMMV, but I’m thinking “Weasel”.
cthulhu on February 4, 2013 at 9:27 PM
All progressive leftists now?
Bmore on February 4, 2013 at 9:28 PM
You spelled liars wrong. Look around, they are everywhere.
BDavis on February 4, 2013 at 9:28 PM
Hopefully, extinct!
OldEnglish on February 4, 2013 at 9:29 PM
When the most liberal voter becomes President, what does liberal mean anymore? To the media, liberal means main stream, so its impossible to have a “liberal lion”. Its impossible for a Democrat to be extreme anymore.
KMav on February 4, 2013 at 9:33 PM
Well, we’re left with a bunch of “Cheatahs.”
ProfShadow on February 4, 2013 at 9:36 PM
Juan,
They are hideing in plain sight behind the same old lies and fraud.
Your just to close to the mirror to see that your all a bunch of co-enablers of the fraud.
Hug Lt. for Life, traitor, back stabing, fake awards and citations, re-manufactured DD-214, John Warner/Jimmy Carter new and improved Discharge,,, worthless crooked neck for us out in the I-Corps chasing the NVA down while he faced up his get out of Nam fraud awards.
Juan,,, look/it, you know yourself that it is all fraud, the CO2 con, the dole and dumb down, the wage/vote slave imported from Mexico, the Community Investment Act of Cime Home Loans, the fake and fraud solar scam, the windmills that cut up birds and tax money, ,,, if not,,, your dumb as a rock like you talk.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 4, 2013 at 9:41 PM
o_O
gwelf on February 4, 2013 at 9:50 PM
Well Juan,
A crappy economy. A “recovery” much worse than the actual recession. Yearly trillion dollar deficits. 1 trillion spent last year on non-entitlement welfare. No plan to stop spending. 50 million Americans on food stamps. And yet Obama was re-elected because Romney was too moderate and his reputation was destroyed by class warfare slander. We’re perceived as vulnerable and weak around the globe.
In other words – you’ve won.
gwelf on February 4, 2013 at 9:53 PM
Your god king does not like lions he lust for sheep like you and Harry Reid. GET IT YET.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 4, 2013 at 9:57 PM
google “liberal lion” — 434,000 hits
google “conservative lion” — 7,902 hits
Ratio of 55 to 1
google “left wing wacko” — 182,000 hits
google “right wing wacko” — 594,000 hits
Ratio of 3 to 1
MSM bias, much?
Paul-Cincy on February 4, 2013 at 9:58 PM
I have a feeling that Senator Elizabeth Warren will take that title gladly.
vegconservative on February 4, 2013 at 10:09 PM
i don’t think Juan is that stupid. He knows the game, makes millions doing the game…just chatter.
Sorry, Juan, no one on this site is buying your BS
r keller on February 4, 2013 at 10:26 PM
97-0 AGAINST Obama’s budget in the Senate. Those few “conservative Democrats” must really be powerful to, say, twist the arms of Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Leahy, Boxer, Feinstein, etc.
Juan, you are just painfully stupid.
Resist We Much on February 4, 2013 at 10:37 PM
Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain are still active and voting the wrong way.
56andwarmweather on February 4, 2013 at 10:45 PM
In the cases of Kennedy or Wellstone, I think you have to prove your bona fides by either killing a woman or killing yourself as you debase any prior principles while you then try to prove no one can get to your left in your lefty voting districts. Death + leftiest = works best.
Greg Toombs on February 4, 2013 at 11:20 PM
Liberal Lions are like the Tooth Fairy. Non-existent yet distributing someone else’s money for worthless things.
viking01 on February 5, 2013 at 1:00 AM
Because that extremist liberal is in the White House.
Washington Nearsider on February 5, 2013 at 6:35 AM
Consider that well and truly stolen, as of this very instant.
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 7:02 AM
Liberals are Lyin’ all the time, Juan. You should know…you do have their playbook, right?
ProfShadow on February 5, 2013 at 7:26 AM
Conservative Democrats in the Senate? The same ones that passed Obamacare, designed to bankrupt the system and become single payer?
The pro-life Senate Democrats, conservative Senate Democrats and Manti-Teo’s girlfriend have a lot in common. None exist.
The “liberal lions” Juan is looking for are still there, they’re just scared to roar since they know they’re over-reaching and the herd animals may stampede.
theCork on February 5, 2013 at 8:14 AM