Only 17 Socialist Senators?

The National Review reports on those who vote with self-described socialist Senator Bernie Sanders :

Over one-third of the Senate — 35 senators, all of them Democrats — have voted the Sanders line 90 percent of the time or more. Since that’s more than twice the number we need to fill out Bachus’s list, let’s restrict membership in the “Sanders Socialist Society” to just those senators voting with him at least 95 percent of the time. They number 15: Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio), John Kerry (D., Mass.), Jack Reed (D., R.I.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.), Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.), Tom Harkin (D., Ia.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.), Richard Durbin (D., Ill.), Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.), Ben Cardin (D., Md.), Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.), Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.), Barbara Mikulski (D., Md.), Roland Burris (D., Ill.), and Ted Kaufman (D., Del.).

Falling just shy of the cut-off — at 94 percent agreement with Sanders — are Sens. Daniel Akaka (D., Hawaii.), Chris Dodd (D., Conn.), Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii), Carl Levin (D., Mich.), Robert Menendez (D., N.J.), Jay Rockefeller (D., W.Va.), Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.), and Ron Wyden (D., Ore.), along with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.).

The sameness of voting records holds up when you exclude about 50 votes — cloture motions, votes to confirm nominees to various executive-branch positions, and so on — that shed little light on one’s philosophical disposition.

Imagine that.