The Democrats will lose a prize member of the party when retiring Kansas Congressman Dennis Moore casts his final vote.
Nate Silver, who writes about politics at the Web site Five Thirty Eight, recently set out to determine the Democratic Party's most valuable member of Congress. Silver is a creative thinker, so he disregarded titles and fund-raising abilities. Instead, he looked for representatives who voted left on key issues (stimulus, health care) while their districts tend to think (and vote) Republican.
Silver determined that Bart Gordon of Tennessee was the Democrats' Joe Mauer. Gordon voted for the stimulus, cap-and-trade and the Fair Pay Act. His district (which covers north central Tennessee) is solidly Republican.
Moore placed ninth on Silver's MVP ballot. Moore voted with his party on all of the initiatives that Silver considered important. His district leans Republican.
The bad news for Democrats is that Moore's retiring -- as is Gordon.
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Moore does not oppose public health insurance. Geez some of the misinformation and hate posted in these comments is ridiculous.
Good riddance to Bad Garbage. No Dems will be elected from this District for many eons to come. As soon as you elect someone who claims to be a centrist, they scre-w you and vote the liberal party line every time. By Dennis, don't let the door hit you on your way out.
Moore is a Blue Dog, literally. He's a member the caucus. He voted with Bush and gave him everything he asked for on the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act (both of which revoked our Constitution), he opposes public health insurance and he doesn't make waves for the business community. With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans? The Democrats will probably run another corporate Democrat to fill his seat. We need someone to run as an independent progressive, because after Obama failed to deliver any change at all (well, ok, he DID go way out on a limb and stop torturing prisoners), the Democrats (once again) blew their chance to lead a populist movement. Because they don't WANT real change. They really don't. It's just an act.
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