Apple Of His Daddy’s Eye
by digby

Following in his father’s turncoat, egomaniacal style, Oklahoma congressman Dan Boren laid down the gauntlet:

“Barack Obama is very unpopular,” said Boren, who represents Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District. “He got 34 percent of the vote statewide, and less in our district. If he were to run for re-election today, I bet it would be even worse.” Boren points out that he does support some of Obama’s initiatives, like the economic stimulus package. He has voted for Obama-supported bills 81 percent of the time, according to a recent Congressional Quarterly study. But despite this, he said the president is too liberal. “It would be a lot nicer if we had someone who was in the middle,” he said. “Bill Clinton won our district. A lot of people don’t remember that, but he, in 1996, carried this district. I think if you have someone who governs from the middle, who’s pragmatic, who works with both parties. President Obama talks a lot about bipartisanship. If you look at some of the legislation, he may have one or two Republicans.”

I’ve written about Boren’s father David’s intractable know-nothingness during the Clinton administration before, which you can see here if you missed it. Suffice to say that the idea that Clinton was a much more bipartisan figure is largely due to the fact that Democratic jackasses like David Boren held a gun to his head for no reason other than that they could.

More importantly, I think it’s quite obvious why the white man from Arkansas might win in Boren’s Oklahoma district while the exotic mixed race guy from Illinois by way of Hawaii might not. Luckily for the Democrats there are fewer districts in the land like Boren’s than there used to be.

Luckily for the country, Dan Boren is not a US Senator like his father where he could really do some damage, and if he ever tries to run I certainly hope progressives all rise up and try to stop him. He’d make Ben Nelson look like Teddy Kennedy by comparison. With 60 Democrats — hell with 51 — there’s no need for someone like him in the Senate. Might as well keep the Inhofe/Coburn sideshow for entertainment purposes.

h/t to bb
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