The Democrats need more Weiners

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is loud and aggressive especially when it comes to the heath care bill, says Dana Milbank at The Washington Post, and Democrats should take note.

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last updated 8 January 2015

"Democrats would be better off if more of them acted like Weiners," says Dana Milbank in The Washington Post. Rep. Anthony Weiner, that is. Most Democrats retreated into silence as the first anniversary of President Obama's signature health care law approached this week, failing to counter "Republican accusations that the legislation is socialist, unconstitutional, bankrupting the country, destroying the medical system, and generally bringing about the apocalypse." But Weiner (D-N.Y.) had a different approach. The "Brooklyn-born streetfighter" held six events on Wednesday to defend the law, loudly and publicly firing off a string of "snappy comebacks to the Republican accusations." He also called on his Democratic colleagues to "stop cowering" as Republicans press for repeal. They should listen. Here, an excerpt:

Weiner, certainly, doesn't cower. The liberal Democrat who aspires to be mayor of New York often earns his surname with his partisan rants on the House floor, his campaigns against Clarence Thomas and Glenn Beck, and his opposition to Obama’s tax-cut deal last year.