Wow.
This takes the cake.
.....afraid to step forward and do what the people want and need, for fear of losing their next election. They play it safe. There are no profiles in courage.
If Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) does what the people of red-state Nebraska want and need, he's constantly assured re-election.
I don't get this "for fear of losing their next election," but I'm not a primitive; perhaps it makes sense to primitives.