Pathetic Supposedly Progressive Dems On Why They Didn't "Stand With Rand"
Must we be petty partisans on everything? Can't Republicans and Democrats agree that the Constitution is worth standing up for?

Apparently not.

Reason's Nick Gillespie pointed to the Huff Post's Luke Johnson and Sabrina Siddiqui, who asked a number of leading progressive Dems where they were during the filiblizzard orchestrated by Rand Paul.

Gillespie writes:

With the exception of Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Senate Democrats were scarcer than hen's teeth (and Durbin didn't join the filibuster so much as ask questions about the killing of Osama bin Laden rather than engage questions about the rights of U.S. citizens).

Here are some of the saddest responses from exactly the sort of bleeding-heart Dems who say they care about executive-branch overreach, sticking up for the little guy, you name it:

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio): "I don't know, there's a lot of debates I don't join that I agree -- I've got stuff to do and was doing a lot of other things."...

photobucket.comSen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt., who caucuses with the Ds): "I'm working right now on many, many, other issues."...

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.): "Everyone's got a lot of priorities and people are busy."...

...Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.): "We all were shocked Republicans were doing a real filibuster instead of a procedural filibuster."

These senators sound like Baby Bear: "It's too hot! It's too cold! My porridge is lummmmpy!"