Roll call vote breakdown: The 85 House Republicans who supported Rangel’s 90 percent bonus tax

You can find the full roll call vote on HR 1586, tax cheat Charlie Rangel’s ass-covering, after-the-fact AIG bonus tax here. I have broken out the 85 Republicans (led by GOP Minority Whip Eric Cantor) who voted with Rangel and the Democrat demagogues.

Yes, it was a sell out but they will get away with it because too many people join you in letting it pass. And, don't imply Rush winked at this, here is what he actually said: I can't tell you how flipping mad what happened yesterday in the House of Representatives makes me. I've been alive 58 years. I've been paying attention to things since I was 12, and I've been through the House Post Office and the House Bank Scandals. But when I saw that happen yesterday, and all week leading up to yesterday, rivals the most outrageous dishonest, disingenuous, near-criminal act I have ever seen. The House of Representatives is enacting legislation to tax a certain number of people at 90% on bonuses they were paid, acting as though they had no idea this had happened.

It was in the stimulus bill that was written in Nancy Pelosi’s damned office! Those bonuses were exempted, limits on those bonuses were exempted. The bonuses were known when they wrote the stimulus bill. It happened in Nancy Pelosi’s office, and Barney Frank helped write it. They passed a law, and they sent it to the president, and good old Special Olympics- teleprompter Obama signed the damn thing. Would never have happened, had they not exempted it. It was in the bill, it was in the law, and they act yesterday like they got blindsided. And they act yesterday like somebody pulled a trick on them. I detest these people. If the mob is mad, if the mob is angry — go ahead and be mad at AIG, if you want, if you want to follow popular sentiment.

But if you're not mad at the US House of Representatives and the United States Senate, if you are not fit to be tied over what they are doing, the assault that they are making on individual liberty, the founding of this country... They are acting as potentates with limitless power. Most of them are incompetent. That's where your anger ought to be directed, and the chance you have to vent your anger is 2010.

Let us hope that Bills of Attainder will still be held to be unconstitutional.

Perhaps that is the true shame in this, that we have to hope. I don't think the Constitution could be any more clear in regard to BoA and ex post facto law.

Congress could have made the point without pissing on the Constitution. It is just a lot of Bill Oh'really populism. You know, looking out for the folks. The reality is that they are trying to protect their own backsides. This, of course, could have been achieved by simply not having government involved in private business in the beginning.

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" [He's] Better than Barack Obama"
- Carol Calabresa/The Sierra Club, 2008
" The strength of our campaign remains the Democrats"
- Mark Kirk, 2008

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The full roll call vote on HR 1586, tax cheat Charlie Rangel’s ass-covering, after-the-fact AIG bonus tax here. I have broken out the 85 Republicans (led by GOP Minority Whip Eric Cantor) who voted with Rangel and the Democrat demagogues:
Kirk, Mark (RINO-IL)

Not surprisingly, Cap-n-traitor Kirk is on the wrong side AGAIN. Yet the Kirk apologists continually claim this socialist is "with us when it counts"

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