Maryland Democrat John Delaney took to the Washington Post yesterday to make the argument that Democrats who are providing a "loud voice" on issues such as TPP are trouble makers who are aiming to assemble the left wing equal to the tea party.
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With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the tea party. But I am worried about where some of the loudest voices in the room could take the Democratic Party.
Delaney caps off his rant with a nonsensical attack on his own party:
Such changes will require Democrats to leave our ideological comfort zone and move away from the idea that government, and government alone, is the answer to our problems.
Delaney is not new to breaking party lines to advocate for positions that don't match with Democratic goals, it was January when he was one of only 12 Democrats to vote for a measure that would take a knife to the Affordable Care Act.
Delaney has made a point of following up these votes over time.
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WASHINGTON — — Something unusual happened when the controversy over the nation's health care law erupted again on the floor of the House of Representatives this month: A Maryland Democrat voted with Republicans.
The seat he holds - which prior was held by Republicans for 20 years, was redrawn in 2011 to be more Democratic friendly with segments of heavily Democrat Montgomery County.
John Delaney had said he would "be his own man" and apparently that person is someone who has a profound misunderstanding of Democratic ideals. While throwing out the canard that Democrats believe government is the only solution (has he not seen how ACA actually works?), his key point boils down to: Democrats should stop being Democrats.
In his conclusion, he offers a false choice: you can have one of these things, not all of these things and some of them aren't worth it.
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Lastly, some in our party continue to engage in time-consuming rhetoric attacking banks that has little chance of producing more financial reform and distracts from far more consequential areas of economic risk, such as climate change, chronic underinvestment in the next generation and our broken immigration and housing finance systems.
Stop attacking banks that are too big.. I mean, it takes time and it isn't going to do anything so stop giving them a hard time.
Strangely, I thought doing things that were difficult was part of the job description.