House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill
House Democrats Who Voted for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment
House Democrats Who Voted Yes on Stupak-Pitts and No on the Final Bill (the Worst of the Worst):
Jason Altmire (Pa. 4)
John Barrow (Ga. 12)
John Boccieri (Ohio 16)
Dan Boren (Okla. 2)
Bobby Bright (Ala. 2)
Ben Chandler (Ky. 6)
Travis Childers (Miss. 1)
Artur Davis (Ala. 7)
Lincoln Davis (Tenn. 4)
Bart Gordon (Tenn. 6)
Parker Griffith (Ala. 5)
Tim Holden (Pa. 17)
Jim Marshall (Ga. 8 )
Jim Matheson (Utah 2)
Mike McIntyre (N.C. 7)
Charlie Melancon (La. 3)
Collin C. Peterson (Minn. 7)
Mike Ross (Ark. 4)
Heath Shuler (N.C. 11)
Ike Skelton (Mo. 4)
John Tanner (Tenn. 8 )
Gene Taylor (Miss. 4)
Harry Teague (N.M. 2)
Primary these assholes. And if you can’t find anyone human, run a $#%^ing snake, or a pig, name it the opposite of what the Rep’s name is, and see what happens.
My ad? “Here’s Heath Shuler, the failed NFL quarterback, who voted against a womans right to choose, and then voted against health care for everyone. He couldn’t complete a pass in the NFL, now he votes against passing health care for all of the hard-working people in this country. What problem does Heath have with passing anything?
Here’s a pig named Shuler Heath. Can you tell the difference? Vote for Shuler Heath. No matter how fat a pig he gets to be, he won’t be as big a pig as that human failure Heath Shuler.”
Given their districts they should be calling themselves Republicans. This pandering isn’t going to help them win in the next general election, voters can see that they can choose between the Bluedog DINO or a Republican that will vote the same way.
I’m furious that my own Rep, Matheson, is one of the Worst of the Worst. Not surprised, though.
It was a rotten bill, and deserved to be defeated. Even Dennis Kucinich voted against it, and he explains why here:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/08-0
A crappy healthcare reform bill is worse than none. It will only give ammunition to the wing-nuts in the next election.
As for Stupid-Pitts Amendment, that’s a bird of a different feather. The fact that it was in the final bill was one more good reason to vote against it.
…they really are Republicans, except they somehow took a wrong turn when it came time to adjourn to the appropriate caucus room. They engaged in what has become a classic minority Republican tactic of forcing wingnut changes to a bill and then voting against it anyway…
This episode perfectly exemplifies why my lack of “comity” would guarantee that I would never make it in a leadership position inside the Beltway. If I were the Speaker or Majority Leader, the only committee assignments these hacks would ever see would be to the Special Select Committee on Pet Food Safety and the only way they would ever again attend a House Democratic Caucus meeting would be by crawling through the heating system ductwork to the nearest air return vent…
Ozonehole, Re: Kucinch — http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2009/11/8/02444/3105
Phoenix Woman — thanks for the link to the BooMan. I essentially agree with him that there are times Kucinich and his grandstanding do get on my nerves.
The question posed by many is, Is a bad bill worse than no bill, and if so, how bad does the bad bill have to be? I agree that a really bad bill is worse than no bill, but I disagree with some Kucinich supporters that the current bill is bad enough to be worse than no bill. If the bill that eventually becomes law is somewhere in the neighborhood of what the House passed, Stupak notwithstanding, it will do a lot of good and pave the way for more progressive reform in the future.
The worst thing for me is that I may be related to that Matheson jerk in Utah. And, a bad health care bill is better than no bill. All these “no voters” don’t care if 45,000 Americans die every year; thus, they are NOT pro-lifers.
And, c u n d gulag, you have Heath Schuler pegged right.
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