True Diversity

Re the immigration bill vote yesterday (courtesy Wash Times):

In yesterday's vote, 33 Democrats, 12 Republicans and one independent voted to proceed with the bill, while 37 Republicans, 15 Democrats and one independent voted to block it.

As Otto has written previously, it's always been amazing how little diversity one sees on the Demmie side when it comes to votes of major import in Congress. Well, no more, at least on this vote.

16 out of 33 Democrats voted against (Bernie Sanders is an Independent in name only), which is a 48% defection rate from "the party line."

And yet I see all these stories today about how the Reepub/Conservative side is now "fractured."

That's fine. Be thee a conservative, or an evangelical, in Today's America, criticism just comes with the package. You get used to it.

Let's see how those renegade Demmies fare.