Do you miss the Blue Dog/Moderate D Senate/House of Yesteryear?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)
Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
Bill Pryor (D-Ark.)
Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.)
Joe Lieberman (D/I-Ct.)
John Breaux (D-La.)
Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.)
Mary Landrieu (D-La.)
Zell Miller (D-Ga.)
and many more I can think of.

Yes because they're all* better than the Republicans they were replaced with.

*Not including Joe Lieberman

Yes. The Blue Dogs who were in between the Dixiecrat era (-early 1970sish) and the Obama era (all those who lost the 2014 wave) were some of the big reasons the Senate functioned so well in those decades. Especially in the South, they were Democrats who managed to create biracial coalitions on a scale that the South hasn't really seen before or since. Republicans in the South don't give a sh**t about the black vote, but people like Landrieu and Heflin definitely did.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)
Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
Bill Pryor (D-Ark.)
Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.)
Joe Lieberman (D/I-Ct.)
John Breaux (D-La.)
Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.)
Mary Landrieu (D-La.)
Zell Miller (D-Ga.)
and many more I can think of.

Yes because they're all* better than the Republicans they were replaced with.

*Not including Joe Lieberman

+101. An alternative to Blue Dogs in most cases were NOT "sterling progressives", but ultraconservative Republicans. And in almost all cases they were worse, frequently - MUCH worse. The only case, where i am sure of being vice versa - Larry McDonald in Georgia. There simply wasn't a place to the right of him..

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)
Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
Bill Pryor (D-Ark.)
Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.)
Joe Lieberman (D/I-Ct.)
John Breaux (D-La.)
Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.)
Mary Landrieu (D-La.)
Zell Miller (D-Ga.)
and many more I can think of.

Yes because they're all* better than the Republicans they were replaced with.

*Not including Joe Lieberman

+101. An alternative to Blue Dogs in most cases were NOT "sterling progressives", but ultraconservative Republicans. And in almost all cases they were worse, frequently - MUCH worse. The only case, where i am sure of being vice versa - Larry McDonald in Georgia. There simply wasn't a place to the right of him..

Larry McDonald is definitely not what most would call a Blue Dog. He's a dyed-in-the-wool Dixiecrat who served about 30 years past when he should have.

fair point.