Surprise! Moderate stabs Dems in the back

[phantom power]

Wisconsin state Sen. Tim Cullen quit the Democratic caucus Tuesday — throwing a cloud of uncertainty over the party’s narrow 17-16 majority, their biggest victory from the waves of state recall elections.

Cullen announced his decision Tuesday after Majority Leader Mark Miller unveiled a list of committee chairmanships in which Cullen was the lone Democrat missing.

I had long been of the belief that the over-emphasis on Walker himself was probably a mistake and that the real emphasis should have been on the agenda.

But now, it's all just bullshit, isn't it? When everything hinges on the whims of any one perfidious bureaucrat with an ego the size of Montana, this is the sort of thing that happens. That's the real problem with polarization --- it gives all the power to supercilious crackpots like this.

The worst people in politics are often the so-called "moderates" who are only "moderate" by virtue of the fact that they believe themselves to superior in every way to the people who believe in something.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/surprise-moderate-stabs-dems-in-back.html

[gopiscrap]

1. I agree!

[xchrom]

2. Du rec. Nt

[fredamae]

3. "Somebody" got to him-n/t

[Lint Head]

4. Fence sitters are cowards.

[Marr]

5. When a split is that close, it seems one of these Lieberman sorts almost always pops up

to take advantage. They can wield a hell of a lot more influence as an individual in an environment like that. I think it ought to be treated as an open admission of corruption, personally-- but there you go.

[WI_DEM]

6. He wanted to be chair of the health committee but Miller held his ground

against it. Cullen is a former health insurance big wig and I'm sure they didn't want him to be the guy in charge of health care in the WI State Senate, so Cullen got in his hissy fit and quit.

[Scuba]

7. Bingo.