We Want Stronger Representives, Not More Liberal Ones

Cenk Uyger hits the nail on the head in an article at Huffington Post about some Democratic Senators caving in on waterboarding and torture and saying they will support Michael Mukasey nomination as Attorney General.

There is this misconception in the press and in Washington that the netroots and other progressive activists want their representatives to be more liberal. The myth is that we want to drag the party all the way to the left and take them away from the center. Nothing could be further from the truth.

We don't need elected officials to be any more liberal or progressive; we just need them to be stronger. Is Senator Schumer's problem that he isn't liberal enough? I don't think so. His problem is that he caves in to the Bush administration on anything that might vaguely be in the "national security" realm because he's scared and miserably weak.