I didn't see the Ford/Moulitsas thing, but it seems to me that what he was really saying was this:
"You guys got them elected, but me and my guys got them to fall in line. What are you gonna do about it?"
    I've heard a lot of justified grumbles about our Netroots candidates jumping ship now and then, but no consideration of WHY they do this. Just for the hell of it? Because they like biting the hand that fed them, just to prove they can? I doubt it. It seems to me the most likely explanation is that these greenhorns walk in and fimmediately find themselves in the middle of an ongoing shitstorm where they are suddenly subjected to all kinds of powerful and sometimes inescapable pressures from people they don't particularly like (kind of like an initiation).
    To tell you the truth, I think that's what just happened to Obama on this FISA thing. Existing power blocs bring their power to bear... to show "who's boss" and to "teach a lesson".
    In other words, getting people elected is only step one. And of course, step two is that their supporters quickly lose interest in supporting them, because they made a bad vote. Now that we put them in, take them out? That takes too long, is very denoralizeing to all concerned, and it misses the point. It willprobably  just keep happening. Maybe we should look a little deeper and be a little more realistic. I don't mean being happy when our people cave, but we need to learn how to parlay our support into real power.
    Not that I am by any means an expert in this, but I suspect that many of us are babes in the woods when it comes to how things actually work in Congress... we have to learn to martial support and help these guys buck the pressures on difficult votes. Hopefully it will be somewhat easier when there are more Democrats, but let's face it, our party still has a strong bloc of powerful quislings.