Dems who voted "No" or present

HopieChangie.com ^ | 2/13/2009 | HC

[APStyle7]

D's No! Bright (AL) Griffith (AL) Peterson (MN) Shuler (NC) DeFazio (OR) Minnick (ID) Taylor (MS)

Present: Lipinski

[APStyle7]

I love these guys (today).

[Edgar3]

Wow, my Rep Heath Shuler voted no. How about that. I can forgive him for that whole “Rocky Top” thing for one day.

[silverleaf]

well, these guys must be patriots, to resist the revenge of the madame pelosi

I would bet they will all have dead fish lying on their desks by Monday morning

[icwhatudo]

Any word on (D)Kratovil from Maryland?

[mewzilla]

I’ll love ‘em, too, as long as they didn’t ask for permission before they voted....

[Proud2BeRight]

Looks like my call to our Democrat Rep didn’t have much influence.

[griswold3]

I think Heath Schuler didn’t like being mocked as a jock by Harry Reid.

[mdwakeup]

Kratovil voted yes.

[ontap]

Present: Lipinski: This is just cover so he can claim he did not vote for it when the shite hits the fan. If the vote had been close he would have voted Yay!

[silverleaf]

wayne gilchrest would have voted yes too
both times

[jpl]

Where do you see this news?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Lipinski is emulating Dear Leader.

[Edgar3]

He could kick Harry’s ass, but good!

[elpadre]

they probably got permission from Polosi knowing their district would vote them out in 2010 if they did not vote no.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

This new era of bipartisanship is TERRIFIC!

[Rightly Biased]

I hope they have someone to start thier cars for them.

They may wind up with 5 gunshot wounds to the back of thier heads and a suicide note pinned to thier chests

[WOBBLY BOB]

Collin P (MN) is also a FairTax co-sponsor. at least last time I checked...

[Camel Joe]

Don’t be so quick to give them a pass, they may be in a district that is in danger of going Republican so Wrinkle Neck may have given them an all clear to vote prudently.

[deoetdoctrinae]

“Shuler voted no”.

I’m stunned as well, from over here in Knoxville.

ATTABOY, Heath!

[brytlea]

You know, it might be kind of fun to have some fisticuffs in the House and Senate.

[Happy Rain]

They begged Pelosi to give them permission to vote no or present because they feared a backlash at home.

If their votes were needed,thay would have followed Sanfran Nan’s orders and voted yes.

[denydenydeny]

These are the ones who got permission from Nancy.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Schuler might as well swtich parties. He’s a marked man.

[Ted Grant]

How does this list compare to the 11 dems who voted no the first time? Who flipped?

[APStyle7]

clerk.house.gov, and www.hopiechangie.com

[maxter]

Boren(OK) voted yes? He may pay for that vote in the upcoming election.

[Bailee]

U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat. “Regardless of party, we all cast our votes with one hand and crossed our fingers with the other.”

Largest spending bill in US History and they don't have the time to read the bill. Unfracking believable with leadership like this its doomed to failure.

[fieldmarshaldj]

No, he’s being groomed to take down Senator Burr. Very “convenient” vote.

[El Gato]

All from Southern states, except Peterson. Must be from a rural district... Yep, about 1/3, or a bit more, of the state, in the West adjacent to the Dakotas.

[darkangel82]

Shuler is more moderate than other dems but he’s still a lib. Don’t be fooled.

[ReformedBeckite]

I'm sure their heart was to vote for it, but since they had the votes they voted no so they can go back to their districts and get their picture taken and be on the front page declaring they were against the bill, so they can get those stupid voters to vote for them again down the road.

[El Gato]

All from Southern states,

Oops, meant Southern and Western. And you can see even though he's from Minnesota, he really fits the "western" model, being from a very rural district on the west side of Minnesota.

[Oldexpat]

The only vote these guys cast that amounted to anything was electing Pelosi speaker. Just as long as they do that they are still Rats in Rino skins.

[AdvisorB]

Probably Pelousy gave him permission....with a wink and a nod.

[jnsun]

wayne gilchrest would have voted yes too both times

That's true. Lived in his district for many years; not a sinister person, but like so many others, a Zero on principle. To me Wayne Gilchrest was the common image of what the Republicans have become.

[kalee]

Or they had prior permission because their seats are in conservative areas and they were allowed to vote no in hopes of preserving those seats. Rahm Emanuel got them elcted by running conservative dems for those seats, a yes vote on this could get them unelected next time.

[ontap]

But of course!

[darkangel82]

He lost the primary last year, but a 3rd party idiot took votes away and allowed a RAT win.

[SERKIT]

Gotta love that bipartisan opposition.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Momentary lapse. There’s always an ulterior motive with these people. I should know better than to ever give any one of them credit for anything.

It won’t happen again.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Duly noted. Comment retracted.

[Sgt_Schultze]

[darkangel82]

We do need a few sane moderates in the other party but Shuler can be expected to vote like a 70s southern Dem.

[RonF]

Lipinski is my Congresscritter. He inherited his seat from his father, who after 10 terms won the primary against token opposition and then resigned. Under Illinois law, that permits the Illinois Democratic Committee to choose who gets his spot on the ballot. After due consideration they gave it to his son, who at the time was a professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee.

My district encompasses part of the City of Chicago and part of the western and southwestern suburbs. The latter makes the district somewhat conservative than you’d expect a Democratic district to be. Not voting for this bill will not be unpopular in his district, although the Chicago portion of it probably would be closer to prefering it.

[Marathoner]

I would bet they will all have dead fish lying on their desks by Monday morning

Or a horse head in the bed.

[ScottinVA]

Of course the dems in the VA delegation all slavishly, submissively, cravenly and predictably voted “yes,” just like our two shining stars of senators (Jim Webb and Mark Warner) will when it comes for a vote there, too. I’m amused by both our senators who said they’d be “independent voices” on Capitol Hill. In his two years in the Senate, I can’t think any single time in which Webb voted against the wishes of his party. I have every reason to believe Warner will be the same way.

[lone star annie]

I agree a RAT is a RAT always. If he had any principles he would not be a RAT.

[jpl]

Thanks. I see that once again every single Republican voted Nay. Good for them!

Of course tonight the traitorous three in the Senate will finish the job.

[fieldmarshaldj]

What’s really sad is that even if he legitimately believed in that vote, as long as he votes for the Democrats to organize the body, his very presence in the House as one of them empowers the radical left. All Conservative Democrats should switch parties or be defeated by Republicans, period. They’re not doing us any favors otherwise.

[ToKillaMockingbird]

Yeah for my freshman congressman, Griffith. He should be a Republican, but Republicans can’t win this district, too many union members and yellow dogs.