The Party Line [View all]

Do Democrats have one? The Party Line is the broad agenda of a party. This is set out by party leadership. In house votes, very few members vote against their party's stated position and the party excercises internal discipline of it's members to ensure the party speaks as one.

When a member votes against the stated agenda of their party, they are said to have "crossed the floor". This is not something that happens often in a parliamentary system. So what happened with Fetterman and many others?

The concept of crossing the floor happens twenty times a week in the Capitol. These people should be shunned and exposed for what they are; disloyal and contrary. But they just dig in and keep right on obstructing.

If the Democrats had a party line would there be less liklihood of members voting against it?