two votes<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Parse these votes\u00c2\u00a0out on the left-right meter as you would like.\u00c2\u00a0 Also of some modest interest, the Paul Krugman diagnosis in examining domestic proposals — chief among them Health Care, and I note that one because it is the easiest one to get a grip on in terms of proposals\u00c2\u00a0— has Obama ever so slightly to the right of Clinton.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever so slightly key operative phrase.<\/p>\nI think we need some new criteria.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps what we could do is give the following Senators a 100 rating in terms of “Liberalism”, ergo defining that term as them: Bernie Sanders, Russ Feingold, and Ted Kennedy.\u00c2\u00a0 From them, you rank them by percentages.\u00c2\u00a0 This also allows arenas of disagreement of the word, meaning that if Sanders is against, say,\u00c2\u00a0the Kitten Extermination Act and Kennedy is for it — meaning who can tell\u00c2\u00a0which is the\u00c2\u00a0“Liberal”\u00c2\u00a0or “Conservative”\u00c2\u00a0position for this bi-partisan bill\u00c2\u00a0— no alignment comes up.<\/p>\n
But then again, Obama ends up nowhere, what with a slew of “Present” votes and a presidential run started before he really slid into the Senate.<\/p>\n
Anyway, words change meaning.\u00c2\u00a0 I should dredge up a chart\u00c2\u00a0I never saved which\u00c2\u00a0I found interesting\u00c2\u00a0but only flicked past me\u00c2\u00a0and show how bizarre these things can get — ie: everyone considered themselves a Liberal in the 1950s, and we all know how Liberal society was in the 1950s.<\/p>\n
And, whatever you do, define yourself as one of these two groups and never allow a deviant thought to enter your cranium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to the National Journal, Barack Obama is the most liberal Senator in the United States Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 Quite the coincidence, as four years ago that honor went to John Kerry. A better examination revealed that John Kerry was actually the number Eleven Liberal in the United States Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 Even so, George Bush got off that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}