It's not your father's Democrat party.
Reacting to early signs that President Obama and the Democratic rump in Congress is lurching to the Left, centrists are complaining bitterly that the left-wing Elizabeth Warren wing of the party is taking control.
Liberal Democrats say centrist grumbling is sour grapes over their decimation in the midterm election.
Obama cannot discount the shrinking centrist group because they can cross the aisle and hand the new GOP's new Senate majority victories on everything from the Keystone XL oil pipeline and banking reforms, to dismantling Obamacare.
On Friday, 28 Democrats defied Obama and joined Republicans to pass a bill to approve the long-stalled Keystone project despite the president's threat early this week to veto the bill if it reaches his desk.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Centrist angst over Dems' leftward lurch
The Washington Examiner reports:
