If Your Cup Of Tea Is A Nice Democrat With No Spine, I Have A Perfect List For You

Yes, Republicans check their spines at the front door-- but many Dems do too

Late Wednesday afternoon there was an interesting vote in the House. It was a GOP procedural move to prevent the Democrats from passing Pete DeFazio's infrastructure bill. The bill itself

• funds federal-aid highway, transit, and safety programs;
• reauthorizes surface transportation programs, including the federal-aid highway program, transit programs, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and rail programs;
• addresses climate change, including strategies to reduce the climate change impacts of the surface transportation system and conduct a vulnerability assessment to identify opportunities to enhance the resilience of the surface transportation system and ensure the efficient use of federal resources;
• revises Buy America procurement requirements for highways, mass transit, and rail;
• establishes a rebuild rural grant program to improve the safety, state of good repair, and connectivity of transportation infrastructure in rural communities;
• implements new safety requirements across all transportation modes; and
• directs the Department of Transportation to establish a pilot program to demonstrate a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee to restore and maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund and achieve and maintain a state of good repair in the surface transportation system.

Primarily because it deals with the Climate Crisis, the Republican Party opposes it. But they tricked the most weak and cowardly Democrats in the House into showing them colors by introducing an utterly anti-China amendment. They could have said, please raise your hands if you area gutless wonder who deserves to be defeated in November. There are only two Democrats who oppose the underlying bill itself, Blue Dog garbage Collin Peterson (MN) and Ben McAdams (UT). But 39 Democraps fell right into the Republican trap and voted for their recommit motion. You want to see a list of cowards and gutless wonders. Here they are, most of them the hideous DCCC recruits from 2018:

• Cindy Axne (New Dem-IA)
• Anthony Brindisi (Blue Dog-NY)
• Gil Cisneros (New Dem-CA)
• TJ Cox (New Dem-CA)
• Angie Craig (New Dem-MN)
• Charlie Crist (Blue Dog-FL)
• Jason Crow (New Dem-CO), who passed himself off as a courageous military hero in 2018
• Joe Cunningham (Blue Dog-SC)
• Antonio Delagado (NY)
• Abby Finkenauer (IA)
• Jared Golden (ME), who passed himself off as a courageous military hero in 2018
• Josh Gottheimer (Blue Dog-NJ)
• Josh Harder (New Dem-CA)
• Kendra Horn (Blue Dog-OK)
• Crissy Houlahan (New Dem-PA), who passed herself off as a courageous military hero in 2018
• Andy Kim (NJ)
• Conor Lamb (PA), who passed himself off as a courageous military hero in 2018
• Susie Lee (New Dem-NV)
• Dave Loebsack (IA)
• Dan Lipinski (Blue Dog-IL)
• Elaine Luria (New Dem-VA)
• Tom Malinowski (New Dem-NJ)
• Sean Patrick Maloney (New Dem-NY)
• Ben McAdams (Blue Dog-UT)
• Lucy McBath (New Dem-GA)
• Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (New Dem-FL)
• Stephanie Murphy (Blue Dog-FL)
• Chris Pappas (New Dem-NH)
• Collin Peterson (Blue Dog-MN)
• Dean Phillips (New Dem-MN)
• Max Rose (Blue Dog-NY), who passed himself off as a courageous military hero in 2018
• Harley Rouda (New Dem-CA)
• Kim Schrier (New Dem-WA)
• Elissa Slotkin (New Dem-MI)
• Abigail Spanberger (Blue Dog-VA), who passed herself off as a courageous military hero in 2018
• Xochitl Torres Small (Blue Dog-NM)
• Lauren Underwood (IL)
• Jennifer Wexton (New Dem-VA)
• Susan Wild (New Dem-PA)

Am I telling anyone to work against these people in November? No... although, if you do, I wouldn't blame you. What I am saying is that if you vote for spineless garbage, you get a Congress filled with spineless garbage. So don't contribute to them and please think carefully and think twice about voting for any of them. They are self-obsessed careerists who don't deserve any kind of support from progressives, even if they are the lesser of evils.