Although I rarely trust people who write about themselves in third person, here is a bit of news that would be exactly the sort of step needed to help build a more progressive Senate. Apparently, Jan Schakowsky is seeking to replace Barack Obama in the Sneate, should Obama become President:
Word is U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who's angling to be Obama's replacement, has been grabbing the Excedrin bottle lately -- ever since Duckworth's name appeared in Sneed's column.
Now, if you can get beyond the rather absurd self-aggrandizement of the columnist who, while writing in the third person, claiming that Schakowsky has someone suffered physical pain as a result of his column, you can focus on the very hopeful news that Rep. Jan Schakowsky is looking to be Obama's replacement in the Senate.
Schakowsky is exactly the sort of person we need in the Senate to start building up the progressive network that Matt has been writing about. She votes right on everything and, beyond that, is notable as a fighter for introducing progressive legislation that is even included in the Responsible Plan To End the War In Iraq. And, as Matt has also noted, adding one person can also make a very large difference. This is both because a single Senator can hold up a lot of legislation on his or her own, and because the overall strength of the network increases exponentially as more nodes are added to it. If you start adding people like Schakowsky, or Merkley and Allen, to an existing group like Feingold, Dodd, Kennedy, Brown, Sanders and Boxer, then the overall strength of the network continues to increase exponentially. Imagine what a tightly knit Senate caucus of 15 Feingolds could accomplish.
This is a hopeful sign. Obama in the White House, and Schakowsky in the Senate, would be a significant improvement on the current political situation. Not only would be get the trifecta, but we would continue to increase the budding progressive network in the Senate, too. She is the clear cut choice for Obama's replacement, and I'd love to find some ways to help her out.
For an earlier post on the same subject, Rahm Emanuel has also been floated as a replacement for Obama.
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