Cheers for Mark Dayton

I wouldn't mind in the least if Kerry and Edwards were tied for the place of "most liberal senator." They still wouldn't be particularly liberal by my standards. However, this piece of boilerplate that is endlessly trotted out by the Bush campaign and the media is, despite all their claims that Kerry is the MOST LIBERAL SENATOR EVER INCLUDING ANYBODY YOU CAN THINK OF IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION, simply a snapshot of a batch of liberal and conservative group's ratings of Kerry's voting from the year 2003. The National Journal, which produced the lists used to produce these dopey assertions that are offered up as if they were the results of -- well, I was going to say, solid scientific research, but since the Republican Party in its present incarnation doesn't give a wooden nickel for science, let me say rather, as if the lists were in some approved translation of the Holy Bible -- got a little fed up and did an actual list based on people's overall voting records. This won't have been especially scientific either, I don't imagine, and indeed all the concepts used are terribly fuzzy. Nevertheless, I shall be fuzzy too. Who is actually listed as the most liberal senator? Mark Dayton. I'm pleased to be his constituent.

http://mostliberalsenator.blogspot.com/

Pamela