I read kos’ latest front page post promoting Donna Edwards for Senate and excoriating her primary opponent, Chris Van Hollen, for saying he’d work across the aisle with Republicans, and I agree, one-hundred percent.
Some Dems just can't shake the stupid 'bipartisan' tic. Lucky for us, we have Donna Edwards
Here’s kos:
You’d think that given the extremism on the GOP side—a group so dysfunctional that they can’t even pretend to discharge their “advice and consent” duties on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee—Democrats would stop pretending that trying to work with those nihilists is a virtue.
What’s instructive about kos’ take is that it doesn’t seem to apply to his support of Hillary Clinton who has said much the same thing as Van Hollen:
Hillary says she’ll work across aisle — and some in GOP agree
In an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd, Clinton stopped short of saying that she’d have better relationships with Congress than Obama. But the Democratic front-runner sent a clear message that she would succeed in pushing policy and navigating the treacherous political terrain because of her lengthy Beltway résumé.
“I have been in Washington, as you know, in and out, for a while. I can see how things get done, and I know how much effort it takes to try to find that common ground,” Clinton said on “MTP Daily.”
“From day one, that’s exactly what I’ll be looking to do,” she added.
“I think you’ve got to go in with an agenda so that it is policy based. And then you begin the intensive effort to build relationships even with people you don’t agree with,” Clinton continued. She added that she worked with former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Texas) to “reform the adoption and foster care system.”
Many of kos’ fellow Clinton backers expressed their acute distress in the comment section with kos’ siding with the liberal firebrand Edwards over the establishment Van Hollen. kos’ rip on Van Hollen didn’t seem to square with his support of the status quo Clinton.
Like I said, kos’ piece is instructive. I’m just not sure of what.
