Rachel Maddow Bashes Conservative Democrats (VIDEO)

WATCH: Maddow Hammers Democratic Senators

Rachel Maddow tore into several conservative Democrats on her Tuesday show, scolding them for what she saw as their dangerous undermining of their own party.

Maddow began by playing the now-legendary video of Herman Cain singing "Imagine There's No Pizza." Citing Talking Points Memo, which analyzed this video with a far more discerning eye than others, Maddow froze the footage on a man who was cheering the Republican presidential nominee as he sang about trying to imagine a world without pizza and just tacos.

"There. Do you see who that is?" Maddow said. "Politics geeks of the world, do you see who that is, standing and enthusiastically cheering on Herman Cain?" It turns out it was Ben Nelson — now a Democratic senator from Nebraska, but at the time, the governor of that state. (Maddow had a different way of putting it, calling Nelson a "sort-of" Democrat.)

Maddow pointed out that Nelson has been making headlines for being one of two Democrats in the Senate who voted against President Obama's jobs bill as a whole last week. Maddow labeled Nelson and Montana Senator Jon Tester as being "Conservadems," Maddow's term for Democrats who "always try to get ahead by trashing their own party." Maddow said that Nelson and Tester were suspected to vote against Obama's jobs bill again. The bill is being broken up into separate entities for the Senate to revisit and vote. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was also suspected to vote against President Obama's jobs the second time around.

Maddow criticized these Senators for voting against Obama's jobs bill and said, "...Conservadems like Jon Tester, and Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman are siding with the Republican Senators who are siding with no voters, not even their own, and who are siding against firefighters and against cops and against teachers."

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