What Makes A Democrat Turn Bad When He Gets To Congress?

Q: Why does Jim Matheson vote with the Republicans all the time?
A: He's a careerist and a political coward and, after all, Romney beat Obama in his district 68-30%

Q: Why does Mike McIntyre vote with the Democrats on crucial roll calls about as much as Walter Jones, a conservative Republican in his state?
A: McIntyre's district went 59-40% for Romney.

Q: People say John Barrow used to be progressive when he was a councilman in Athens. Why did he turn into one of the most reactionary Democrats in Congress?
A: Barrow doesn't stand for anything and never had any backbone-- and his district went 55-44% for Romney

Q: How did Ann Kirkpatrick wind up with the most Republican voting record of any Democratic freshman this year?
A: She's kind of like Barrow-- and Romney beat Obama 50-48% in her district... which isn't that daunting, so it must mostly be about cowardice and, since she was defeated in 2010 for doing the same thing, weakness and fear..

Q: I thought Patrick Murphy ran as a progressive; why is he behaving like a conservative Republican since she got to Congress?
A: Aside from always having been a Republican for his whole life, he's nervous because his district went for Romney 52-48%.

Q: Why is San Francisco Bay Area freshman Eric Swalwell so conservative since getting into Congress? Does he have one of those red districts too?
A: This one is tough to figure out. Either Swalwell is a Republican calling himself a Democrat for political expediency or he just hates working families and wants to wreck their lives. Obama didn't just win his district in a landslide, he won in a massive 68-30% landslide.
Swalwell, one of the most disliked Democratic freshman and one of the most disliked California incumbents in the state delegation, will have a primary to worry about next year. Not only is he way too conservative for his district, many party activists, who are much more likely to vote in a midterm than a run of the mill Democrat, haven't forgotten he primaried-- and in the nastiest way imaginable-- the district's beloved former congressman, Pete Stark.
Meanwhile, Swalwell has already sucked up contributions from every crooked Beltway lobbyist and corporate PAC in existence. His FEC report reads just like a garden variety Republican FEC report.