Posted on 03/15/2010 4:55:34 PM PDT by speciallybland
In December, I posted ratings for each Democratic Representative based on how they voted on 10 key agenda items in 2009. The idea was to see how each Democrat voted relative to the partisan slant of his district; a Democrat voting for the cap-and-trade bill in a Republican-leaning district would get quite a bit of credit for that, for instance, while one voting for the same measure in a district with a PVI of D+15 would get almost no credit for the vote since almost every Representative from such a district voted for the bill anyway. The analysis concluded that TN-6's Bart Gordon, who voted with the Democrats on 8 of 10 key agenda items in spite of coming from a R+13 district, had provided the most value to his party on key votes. Artur Davis of AL-7, who has voted against several major agenda items because he is running for governor in Alabama, was the least valuable Democrat.
The original version of the ratings built in an exception for what I termed "liberal nos": votes that a Democratic member cast against his party's agenda, but which he justified by stating that the policy under consideration was not liberal enough. We did not count the liberal no votes as yes votes -- we just threw them out, treating them as non-votes instead.
But what if we don't build in an exception for the so-called "liberal no's" -- that is, simply take every vote at face value? It turns out, then, that Davis is no longer the least valuable Democrat. Instead, it is Dennis Kucinich, who voted against health care, the hate crimes bill, the budget, the cap-and-trade bill, and financial regulation -- all ostensibly from the left -- in spite of coming from Ohio 10th district.
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Kucinich is the liberal version of Ron Paul’s “Dr. No”. He votes against everything for some wacko liberal reason ... and introduces random worthess symbolic amendments and bills that go nowhere except on the left-wing talk show circuit (i.e. abolish the DOD and create a “Department of Peace” ... blah, blah).
SnakeDoc
I like his taste in women, though!
I don’t hate the guy but if he wants to really be a maverick or just an individual;he might want to go independent.
It is all good to have your own ideas but if it comes down to you refusing to work with the group your affiliated with-it doesn’t serve much.
You like Gold Diggers? ;-)
(SOB!) Leave Dennis (SOB! SNORK!) alooooooone! (Bawling)
I hate to butcher this song but I must:
“She works hard for the money
so hard for her honey
she works hard for the money
‘cause dennis is so gay”
LLS
If she’s a gold-digger she’s not the smartest one on the planet. In a good year I make quite a bit more than he does and that ain’t sayin’ a lot.
What he makes on the books maybe. Ohio politics never leaves a long term politician in the poor house. ;-)
By God he’s crazy
And that’s the way his constituents like him, damn it!
She has a PIERCED TONGUE.....YUKEROO!!!
Ounce for ounce, Kucinich is likely no more useless than the average Democrat.
Where does Kucinich stand this year on abortion? I remember when he was strongly pro-life, but I also saw how easily that changed for political expediency.
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