Interesting comment in the Nation [View All]

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Reading John Nichols's piece about Robert's confirmation, I found this paragraph, that I found interesting considering both its source and the view many people on DU have.

So according to this person, John Kerry is not one of the centrist in the Senate, but paty of the "more reliably progressive members".

I wonder how some of our friends on GD would react at this idea (which is globally true IMHO).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050929/cm_thenation/125350;_ylt=A86.I0I4ZTxDhHUB9Bb9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Ultimately, however, most of the Democratic votes in opposition to confirmation came from the chamber's more reliably progressive members, including: Hawaii's Daniel Akaka and Daniel Inouye, California's Barbara Boxer, New Jersey's John Corzine, Minnesota's Mark Dayton, Illinois's Richard Durbin and Barack Obama, Iowa's Tom Harkin, Massachusetts's Edward Kennedy and
John Kerry, Maryland's Barbara Mikulski and Paul Sarbanes, Rhode Island's Jack Reed, Nevada's Harry Reid, New York's Charles Schumer and Michigan's Debbie Stabenow.