Wednesday, May 16, 2007

dems voting against reid-feingold...

The consolation of the 29-67 defeat (h/t to Greg and TPM Cafe) is the appearance of the Dems coming to grips with the issue and putting it out front & center.

Meanwhile, somebody know why Webb voted against?

Dems (and Satan's little helper) who voted NO... and why I think, offhand, they did:
Baucus (MT)... DINO...
Bayh (IN)... DLC...
Bingaman (NM)... no clue...
Carper (DE)... because, unlike Biden, the other Credit Card Industry puppet, he's not running for the Dem nomination...
Casey (PA)... DINO...
Conrad (ND)... DINO...
Dorgan (ND)... red state...
Landrieu (LA)... DINO...
Levin (MI)... frickin' old and mentally outta the loop...
Lieberman (ID-CT)... Satan's little helper...
Lincoln (AR)... because he's not the Lincoln from Illinois...
McCaskill (MO)... bewildering...
Bill Nelson (FL)... bewildering...
Ben Nelson (NE)... DINO...
Pryor (AR)... DINO...
Reed (RI)... utterly bewildering...
Rockefeller (WV)... because he doesn't know when to stop being the weak little enabler on the Intel Committee...
Salazar (CO)... DLC...
Tester (MT)... bewildering...
Webb (VA)... UTTERLY bewildering... the big military industrial complex of Virginia maybe... ?
Like I said, "offhand"; I'm sure now as even the nay-sayers have "taken a stand," we can find out why they stand so far away.

1 comment:

Naahm Deplume said...

Tester and Webb: Whaddidya expect? They ran as New Dems, and don't want the Trojan Liberal moniker hung on the Clintons when the campaigned as moderates, and turned into liberals after 1/20/93.

Landrieu and Casey are DINOs? They sure as heck aren't conservatives, and they are so covered in Dem-Boss pocket lint, you would think they were gray. Guess the McGovern revolution crowd still needs to root out the party bosses.

Not only do you look a little like Michael Moore, you are starting to sound a lot like him. What's next? Round up all the investors and off with their heads?

(BTW, Dems are pushing bills to repeal preferential tax rates for LTCGs and qualified dividends. If they succeed, short the S&P and make yourself some money.)