Electing Republicans

While there are certainly some tangible benefits in terms of committee numbers, I am honestly starting to wonder if the president would be better off if a few of the centrist democrats in the senate got knocked off.

So far they have yet to support anything on the democratic agenda. And if they are dumped then the left bound of whatever gang of 'centrists' emerges, since the senate now seems to require one to pass any major bill, will be substantially more progressive.

The main criticism of this is that the move mirrors the moderate purge of house republicans that is responsible for their current minority status. But I would counter that the success of the President and plenty of other democrats last year shows that there is much more room to the left of Mary Landreau than to the right of Lincoln Chaffee.