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Daily Kos on GOP Arm Twisting

Daily Kos highlights a Robert Novak column about Republican arm twisting over the Medicare prescription drug plan. Kos asks,

Could you see Clinton or Pelosi doing something like this? Doesn't seem to be a good way to engender loyalty. Then again, their caucus is a lot more cohesive than ours. They vote en masse better than we can ever hope to achieve.

Yes I can. And of course there was no arm twisting with the Democrats to keep heavy weight Democrats from challenging Davis.

Of course, the problem is that these kind of strong arm tactics are rather deplorable. But it is indicative of somebody with huge ideological blinders on to not realize both sides do it.