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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Many Democrats tend to agree with Joe on the issues. What they -- I -- can't stand about him is his predilection to aggrandize himself by selling out his party.
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Joe seems like an OK but not terribly effective Senator. Frankly, he should have gotten a lot more, on a policy level, for cozying up to Bush and the War than he did. Some I'll give you bipartisan support on this issue and take my lumps, but let's see you do some bipartisan support stuff on education, for example. I view Connecticut as fundamentally unexciting - Connecticut will have a decent but not stellar Senator either way when the dust settled.
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He's like the New Republic in this way -- they're perfect for each other.
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I don't understand this - the New Republic gave up any pretense of being oriented toward the Democrats 20 years ago. There is still a lot of difference between Joe and the Republican alternatives.
