If there were folks on TV calling for impeachment or better yet, a war crimes tribunal, you'd see a softening of the epithets against those closer to the middle.

The "talking head" shows always present someone from the right against someone from the slightly-less-right. This makes real leftists look like creatures from another planet.

Being a senator from "MBNA"-land and voting for the cruel Bankruptcy Act provisions at least makes some sense.  Delaware has historically been a particularly corporate friendly state, a preferred venue for incorporation among all states, and has laws (like usury laws, maximum late fee laws etc) which favor banks and credit card companies, like several others (Citicorp in South Dakota!) which want to attract the industry.

What doesn't make sense are some of Biden's other politics (the kind Kos doesn't seem too concerned with either, unfortunately) as relate to criminal justice reform, and particularly the War on Drugs.  Biden is on one of the committees that oversees these matters, IIRC, and has always been voting in a "bipartisan" fashion with the Republican sponsors of most of the retrograde laws of the past 20 years: mandatory minimums, harsh prison penalties for possession, more money for militarized SWAT team and militarized interdiction efforts worldwide, spraying of drugs in Colombia and Afghanistan, more prisons, etc.

The good senator seems tone-deaf that his sponsorship of these measures and thwarting of reform efforts is in not in any way a progressive or "democratic" stance, but I don't see anything about Delaware that calls for that (except, perhaps, "border state" racism).

With other Dems such as Sen. Leahy and Rep. Kucinich replacing Reps. Sensenbrenner and Souder and Sen. Hatch on the committees that deal with the illegal drugs - crime issues, it remains to be seen whether Biden will continue to be a stumbling block or will let some of his Democratic colleagues find a way to stop digging this particular hole.

While I can symnpathize with Clinton's need to not appear to "wishy-washy" about her Iraq war authorization vote because of what the right would make of that vis-a-vis her gender, Biden gets no such sympathy for being Big Bank's pimp on the bankruptcy law.  Like Kerry, Biden just needs to put his ego on hold and just fo the fuck away from national politics and be the big fish in a tiny state.

All Progressives need to become ardent supporters of the Second, as well as the , First Amendment

Could you show me where in that link Markos says he rejects Biden because of his vote on the bankrupcy bill?