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Landrieu feels the sting of party discipline
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Yglesias notes that Senator Mary Landrieu is out as keynote speaker at the Palm Beach County Democratic Party's annual fund-raising dinner, because of her refusal to commit on cloture for health care. Matt says: "Probably not the most devastating blow to a politician's career, but good to see someone's paying attention." He may underestimate this sort of thing. Democrats can do just just about anything and remain members in good standing. Challenging that perspective matters. Here's hoping more follow suit. ...
Thursday's campaign round-up
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... yesterday during a private meeting with White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard. * Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) was slated to be the keynote speaker for the Palm Beach County Democratic Party's annual fund-raising dinner next week. Given her weak-to-wavering support for health care reform, local party leaders decided to pull the invitation . * And in New Hampshire, Ted Gatsas was elected mayor of Manchester this week. Soon after, he ...
The Party of Discipline
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... vote on the
legislation.
Democrats need 60 votes to invoke “cloture” and force a vote.
“We just didn’t want to have a keynote speaker who’s not
committed to cloture. It would have just been wrong,” said
Siegel, who said party higher-ups and rank-and-file members had
voiced displeasure with the choice of Landrieu as a keynoter.
Full story. This, incidentally, is referred to by its
practitioners as
enforcing "party discipline," which is rather different than
a "plan
to purge ...
