He worked with a diverse group last year, including Sam Brownback, who’s about as far on the other side of the aisle as it gets, to include his Federal Iraq amendment to the Defense Authorization bill.

This year he’s worked with Dick Lugar to provide additional Pakistani aid in order to alleviate some of the major procedural problems there.

Last year he also co-sponsored a bill with Orrin Hatch to strengthen cyber-crime laws. Personally, I thought it was a mediocre attempt at a good idea, but that’s really beside the point.

Those are just a few examples off the top of my head. I would never argue that he’s a DINO, but to say that he’s some mindless puppet who never values the input or ideas of others seems, to me, to be incorrect.

where ‘liberal’ became a go-to term for ‘bad political leader.’ It’s funny how a word for such a benign set of collective political beliefs has become borderline slanderous to use in any context. It certainly shouldn’t be any more ‘dirty’ a word than ‘conservative’ is. It’s a bland, over-simplified way of writing off an entire politician with one word, rather than analyzing the individual. It’s why I hate both of the words.

Change is going liberal. Unless you want to call Bush and Satan Cheney liberals.

anything to the discussion in any political thread other than one of two word smarky responses?

Do you know enough to discuss a topic with someone or do you just plan on agreeing with the far right comments and blasting those to the left?