Three Democrats Join GOP In An Attempt To Scuttle Health Insurance For Needy Children
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Earlier today DWT and Crooks & Liars hosted the new head of the DCCC's Red to Blue Program. When asked about reactionary Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with the Republicans on core Democratic values-- like equality in the workplace for women-- he didn't mince words:
It's extremely frustrating to me. It doesn't seem like one of those defining issues that is going to be used against you to paint you as a tool of the Speaker, which is usually what happens in these races in the Deep South. It does seem like this is an issue that is a defining issue for Democratic voters and I would hope that Democrats in those districts in Alabama and around the country would make their feelings known to help educate these new members to the fact that just because you have received support in the past, to pick up an open seat, does not mean that you can ignore what your party stands for when it comes to basic tenets.
He had to rush off from our session to vote on SCHIP. Before that vote, there was a procedural attempt by the Republicans to kill it. It failed 244-178. Three reactionary fake Democrats joined every single Republican in trying to sabotage health care for needy children. The culprits?
Baron Hill (Blue Dog- IN)
Walt Minnick (ID)
Heath Shuler (Blue Dog-NC)
Hill is the co-chair of the reactionary Blue Dogs in charge of policy. Minnick was just elected and has voted with the Republicans on every disputed bill that has come up so far. And Shuler... Rahm Emanuel's one success from 2006, a Republican jackass masquerading as a Democrat who thinks he's going to run for Richard Burr's Senate seat in 2010, something that would insure another six years for Burr.
UPDATE: SCHIP PASSES... AGAIN
The Republicans tried another tactic to kill the bill (a motion to recommit) and it failed 179- 247. Three Republicans, Chris Smith (NJ), Frank LoBiondo (NJ) and Vern Buchanan (FL), voted with the Democrats and 5 reactionary Democrats crossed the aisle in the other direction:
Bobby Bright (AL)
Walt Minnick (ID)
Gene Taylor (MS)
Jim Marshall (GA)
Mike McIntyre (NC)
In the end 40 Republicans voted for final passage, bringing the total to 289 for and only 139 against. Only two fake Democrats voted against it:
Jim Marshall (GA)
Bobby Bright (AL)
Labels: Baron Hill, Blue Dogs, Bright, Heath Shuler, Jim Marshall, Minnick, reactionary Democrats, SCHIP
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 12:00 PM
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Bobby Bright is off to a great start...voting against equal pay, children's health insurance in just in the first two weeks!
Great job, DCCC, for spending $300,000 this loser.
The DCCC just confirmed to me a few minutes ago that they spent $1,177,847 on Bright's campaign. That doesn't include the vast amounts of money they helped him raise directly-- money that could have been spent on real Democrats. Certainly Doug Tudor (D-FL), Bill Durston (D-CA) and Bill Hedrick (D-CA) would have won their races with some of that wasted loot.
I also think it's interesting that Ileana Ros-Lehtinen decided to vote for SCHIP this year now that Obama won her district something like 50-48 and her underfunded challenger got 42%...she didn't last year when she thought she was safe:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2007-1009
Debbie Wasserman Schultz's other friends, the Diaz-Balarts are doing the same thing....vote against it last year, vote for it this year now that they're vulnerable.
Minnick was just elected and has voted with the Republicans on every disputed bill that has come up so far
Not to defend Minnick's abhorrent vote on the attempted procedural move, but he did vote for the Ledbetter Act, which ended up 247-171, which is in the same neighborhood as this vote (if I'm reading the House page correctly).
We, in Idaho, had our chance to run a real Democrat with a chance to win against Brainfade Bill Sali. Minnick's a one-termer, I'm afraid, though the ID-1 Repubs do like to run the crazies. I'll still work the phone banks, though.
Not a little here and a little there. Universal Health care for all just like John Conyers bill. Nothing else will do.
There is an important substantitive difference between this bill and the vetoed versions from 2007 - lifting of the five-year bar on covering legal immigrants. This is why the brothers Diaz-Balart and IRL voted in favor this time. Clearly, though, from a vote count perspective, their votes are not what could have pushed over the Bush vetos.
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