The Republican that voted with Obama-Pelosi-Reid and the rest of the Democrat Communist Party

http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/the-republican-that-voted-with ^

[cherry]

just stop people.....

we have so many Pub haters out here that its like the threads on rape......the victim is the first to be blamed, questioned, ridiculed,investigated....

and the perp just sits there twiddling his thumbs...

we attack a generally conservative pub over his vote yet we leave the 217 ratholes to sit there twiddling their thumbs....

people better understand that our system of govt. is set up for only TWO parties...and if you are constantly attacking the one party its having a damaging effect on that party, and that party is the ONLY one that can lead us away from communism.....

put the attacks where they belong...on the 217 rats...

[afraidfortherepublic]

As I remember, Joseph Cao was educated to be a priest before he changed his mind and got married. The Catholic Church has sent mixed signals about this bill — trumpeting the “need” for healthcare reform while lamenting the provisons for taxpayer funded abortions contained within the Bill. I suspect that this has a lot to do with Cao’s vote.

Once the taxpayer paid abortion measures were removed, there was no reason for Cao to oppose the Bill. I’m sure that he saw it as a way to help people. I don’t agree with that, but I suspect that is how he saw it.

Mr. Cao should watch to see how fast those abortion clauses and put right back into thel Bill in conference.

[afraidfortherepublic]

ARE put right back in.

[The Wizard]

1 republican is not bi-partisan....the gop should let this cat know that NO, (none) GOP funds will be coming to him...get out and join the demenies

[newnhdad]

Can’t blame this guy or even democraps for communizing the country, I can blame people that stayed home over the past few election cycles because they felt the republicans weren’t pure enough to vote for.
Elections have consequences, one of which is this type of legislation. Next will be Cap and Tax and if they maintain enough of a majority, the next few rounds of “spendulus” will make the first look like a cup of coffee.

We have nobody to blame but the holier than thou people would couldn’t hold their noses and vote for McCain and other Republicans. Maybe this will be a lesson.

[j_tull]

He could have voted “present” like his constiuents’ hero was wont to do.

[Adder]

Yeah Yeah yeah...the same strategy has given us losses in both houses.

Just WHAT has he actually DEFEATED?

How have his ‘brave conservative stands against Nancy Pelosi’s agenda’ done a thing to further freedom from these fascist euro loving socialists except to be a member with R after his name and not a very reliable one at that?

“Cao, R-La. Cao has tried to convince his overwhelmingly Democratic constituency that he is an independent, moderate Republican. Congressional Quarterly found that through August, Cao sided with most Republican colleagues against most Democrats on just 58 percent of party-line votes, the lowest “party unity” score among GOP Members.” [Yahoo News]

Screw him and the horse he rode in on.

Principles have to mean something or we are certainly doomed. We may already be doomed,,,,but thats another post.

[Impy]

He represents a majority African American district that normally votes Democrat. His votes undoubtedly reflect the views and desires of his constituents. If he does not vote for their interests when the major bills come to vote, he will lose his bid for reelection.

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A Congressman actually representing the preferences of his district. What a novel concept!

Bad post Soul.

Several points.

A)Screw what they may think, they're wrong. Most of them don't think at all or else they wouldn't vote heavily democrat. Harsh? True. Sheeple need conservative representatives to protect them from their own MSM fueled ignorance.

B)It's most certainly NOT in their "interest" that this passes. This bill would lead to heath care rationing for the poor. Only the insurance companies that own the DNC benefit from this.

C)Most of the 49% of people in the low turnout election that actually voted for Cao likely do not support this and are not happy with this vote.

D)He's not going to win reelection anyway. If he did it wouldn't be by voting identically to a democrat. Urban voters need an alternative to liberalism. Me to RINOism is pointless and will never succeed in electing Republicans in heavily rat areas.

Now it's possible several rat nay votes here were "catch and release" meaning if Pelosi had needed their votes she would have gotten them.

Assuming there were none (which is likely not true, perhaps Cao was catch and release for the GOP side) then we failed stopping this by 3 votes.

1 lost NY special election (the rat that succeeded Gillibrand voted nay, the newly elected Owens voted yay), 1 stolen Ohio seat in 2008 and 1 Cao. Or alternatively 1 Rosanna Pulido, David Harmer, and Betty Chu away (more lost special elections all in dem districts, only Harmer got major support and it was too little too late). Boo. GOP allowed the rats to steal a few too many seats.

[Impy]

Also if Cao votes “his district’s preference” on everything that means he’d have to vote for Pelosi as Speaker.

[truthandlife]

I think we are focusing why too much on this one Republican. The objective of the Dems was to get socialized medicine passed. Yeah, this guy needs to taken to the woodshed but we now need to focus on getting as many Democrats out of office as possible in 2010. Let’s focus on who the true enemy to this nation is.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Impy’s points are all good ones. The most important one from a practical, selfish perspective, which is the reason Cao voted as he did, is that a rep should vote thinking of the voters he’ll face the next election, not the time before. Cao has no chance of winning reelection in that district (unless somehow William Jefferson wins tge Democrat nomination from prison, and even then Cao may lose), and his next real race, assuming tgat he wishes to stay in politics, will be before much more conservative voters.

Look at it this way: Democrat Congressman Artur Davis represents a black-majority district in Alabama, and has until recently had a reflexively liberal voting record, but Davis voted for Stupak-Pitts and against passage of Obamacare despite being from a district very similar demographically to Cao’s. Why was that? Because Davis is running for governor, and voting like a typical urban liberal would make him unelectable statewide.

Cao supporting Obamacare won’t increase his odds of reelection in the LA-02 at all and kill any chance he had of being elected statewide.

[Adder]

I believe Nazi P had the votes or she would not have risked the bill. Despise tho I do, she does know how to play the game.

Cao lets them crow that it was “bipartisan”, because the stupid among us don’t bother to do more than scan headlines. If he is going to vote with the dumbles, it doesn’t matter one whit that ooooo, he is a wepublican.

I am disgusted.

[Clintonfatigued]

I’m willing to cut him some slack on most votes, but this was a make-or-break vote for our nation’s history.

[Clintonfatigued]

What you say is true, we should tolerate dissent on economic issues and a few others from Cao. I didn’t even think his vote against Joe Wilson was a big deal. But this vote was different. It’s a full-scale takeover of the medical care system and a major part of our private lives. He should have known better.

[Grizzled Bear]

and that party is the ONLY one that can lead us away from communism.....

Give us a yell when they actually start doing what you claim they are doing.

[BillyBoy]

Soul is probably correct that since Cao represents a overwhemingly Democrat, poor black urban district, a strong majority of his constituents supported this bill and would be outraged if he voted against it. (certainly there's more evidence of that than the Mark Kirk supporters claim he "has to" support partial birth abortion to get elected in a 50% Republican district that voted for Obama. Anyone wanna trying walking up to random voters in Illinois' 10th district and see if you can get at 51% of them to say they won't vote for anyone who's not rabidly in favor of late term abortion?). Or cap n trade for that matter.

However, Impy's also right that if Cao voted “his district’s preference” on everything that means he’d have to vote for Pelosi as Speaker. I don't know his ACU rating since it's his first year in office, but I'd say it's close to 65% conservative as compared to Kirk's 40%. I would certainly guess Cao's overall record is to the right of the "average" voter in his district.

Cao had been saying for weeks that although his constituents want universal health care, he can't in good conscience vote for any legislation that would fund abortion. The Catholic church applauded him for that. Then the Stupak amendment passed, and it gave pro-life Democrats and Cao "cover" to vote for this bill like their liberal constituents demanded. The thing to watch for is whether abortion funding gets put back into the bill during conference committee (that's assuming the Senate passes the bill anyway, though Joe LIEberman and Lindsey Graham say it will never make it thur the Senate). If the bill comes back the House with the Senate version, Cao and the pro-life Dems will have to vote against.

Personally if I was in Cao's shoes and represented a super liberal moonbat district that always elects commies, I don't think I'd support universal health care but I'd probably lay low during major legislation up for a vote during my freshman term (this bill would be a good excuse to be on a "fact finding" mission about "AIDS relief"). If he somehow managed to survive re-election, he probably won't be secure in Congress enough to vocally oppose his constituency on major bills until 3 or 4 terms into office. Bottom line is every time he puts his neck out there for the GOP he's giving his RAT oppositon ammo to use against him in the next election.

Bottom line is yes, cowardly act by Cao, but he's still 10X better than a full fledged moonbat in that district and as the Republican represented the most lopsided district in the country (no Republican has won that seat since the 1870s!) I understand the problems he has dealing with a moonbat constituency constantly attacking him.

[PhilCollins]

In 2010, a Repbulican should be able to defeat Congresswoman Melissa Bean, of Illinois’ 8th District. Phil Crane, a conservative, had that seat for 35 years. The majority of the state legislators, in that district, are Republicans.

[BillyBoy]

>> In 2010, a Repbulican should be able to defeat Congresswoman Melissa Bean, of Illinois’ 8th District. Phil Crane, a conservative, had that seat for 35 years. The majority of the state legislators, in that district, are Republicans. <<

Very good point, Phil. If we're going to look at "punishing" anyone for voting in favor of Obamacare, the first priority should be the RATs in formerly GOP held seats that voted for it. People forget that as recently as 6 years ago we had a 11-9 GOP majority delegation from Illinois in Congress. Bean, Foster, and Halvenson all represent formerly GOP held seats, and all three voted in favor of Obamacare.

There have been some excellent GOP recruits in Foster and Halvenson's district. Bean could finally face a real challenger too, as opposed to the failed strategy of running bored zillionaires "from the private sector" the GOP has employed the last two election cycles. One particularly interested candidate running against Bean is Long Grove Mayor Maria Rodriguez. She's lived in the district for 25 years, solid track record as mayor, good conservative positions on all the major issues (2nd amendment, deporting illegals, anti-Obamacare, anti-cap n' trade, etc.), suburban mom, empathic speaker, and spanish-sounding last name will drive the race-baiting RATs nuts. The only BIG negative I see is that apparently she endorsed RINO Mark Kirk in the primary for Senate (and I always see that one as a biggie warning sigh... in much the same way Field is wary of any Republican who supported Romney for President)

http://www.mariarodriguezforcongress.com

Thoughts?

[reagan_fanatic]

I don't believe our message has been that. It's been somewhat anti-immigrant, it's been oftentimes too pro-business and anti-family.”

Unbelieveable.

So, if you're pro-border control, you're anti-immigrant. If you're for free enterprise and Capitalism, you're too pro-business. If you dare support traditional marriage, you're anti-family.

This nut needs to stop putting an R after his name and quit pretending to be something he's not.

[Clintonfatigued]

Mayor Maria Rodriguez sounds promising. I’m glad she’s conservative and engaging and I’m willing to let her endorsement of Mark Kirk slide, considering the district. My only concern is that Long Grove only has some 7,000 people, limiting her name I.D., but she still sounds promising.