Real Work is Hard
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) on Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) who apparently has the audacity consider the issues before casting a vote:
I think he’s a guy who’s willing to get down into the weeds. Because he immerses himself in that and understands it so well — the positions he adopts may not always be the ones that everyone else in our conference comes to.
It pus the whole roll call scaling thing into perspective a bit (on which also see John Sides on Ben Lauderdale). Link via Political Wire.
The quote also makes me think of an aside made by Joe Biden when he visited UWM with Tim Geithner. Biden said, “complicated issues lend themselves to demagoguery.” He might as well said that complicated issues encourage decision makers to avoid detailed rational calculations and use ideology.
