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RUSH: This morning on CBS This Morning, the congressional correspondent, Nancy Cordes, had a report about the disappearance of moderates in Congress. Terrible thing, CBS News lamenting the death of the moderate.<\/p>\n
CORDES: The ranks of centrists have thinned. Most of her fellow moderates have either moved to the right or retired. Moderate Democrat Evan Bayh cited gridlock when he left the Senate in 2010. Connecticut independent Senator Joe Lieberman is retiring at the end of this year. In the House of Representatives, 22 of 54 centrist Blue Dog Democrats were defeated in the last election. To some degree, the disappearance of the middle is a reflection of the electorate. According to Gallop, the percentage of Americans who consider themselves moderate has dropped over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n
MCCASKILL: If we don\u2019t begin to take better care of the moderates in both parties in our democracy, um, it\u2019s not gonna be pretty. Because if you look through history, Charlie, all of the great work we\u2019ve done in Congress has been around a table of compromise when it comes to the most difficult problems. The problem now is the two ends are getting all the amplification. The political system loves the extremes. It doesn\u2019t so much show a lot of love for the moderates.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
MCCASKILL: So it\u2019s really hard right now.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Senator McCaskill, I have a homework assignment: I want you to produce for me Great Moderates in the US Senate. What a crock. “All the great work we\u2019ve done in Congress been around a table of compromise when it comes to the most difficult problems.” No it has not, in her definition of great work. Her definition of “great work in Congress” is when Republicans totally cave. That\u2019s what their definition of “compromise” is. But it\u2019s like I\u2019ve always said: Go to the library (“liberry,” for those of you in Rio Linda) and find me the book Great Moderates in American History. The book hasn\u2019t been written. Great Moderates in the US Senate? Great Moderates in the US House? They all get tsunamied at one point or another. Charlie Rose is very upset about this.<\/p>\n
ROSE: What\u2019s interesting about this is that elections are won in the center! Elections are won in the center!<\/p>\n
MCCASKILL: That\u2019s true. I think the best hope to keep moderation on the Hill is, in fact, in the Senate where you have states like mine. I mean, you couldn\u2019t call my state a blue state (snickers) under any stretch of the imagination, but there\u2019s a lot of independent voters that want me to be stubbornly independent. They don\u2019t want me to say, “Yes, sir,” to Harry Reid.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They want her to be stubbornly independent? They don\u2019t want her to say “Yes, sir,” to Harry Reid? It sounds to me, Claire, like they don\u2019t want you to be a commie babe liberal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: This morning on CBS This Morning, the congressional correspondent, Nancy Cordes, had a report about the disappearance of moderates in Congress. Terrible thing, CBS News lamenting the death of the moderate. CORDES: The ranks of centrists have thinned. Most of her fellow moderates have either moved to the right or retired. Moderate Democrat Evan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n