The 42 Dems who voted "Yes" for the Paris Hilton Tax Cut...

[Career Prole]

ALABAMA Cramer
ARKANSAS Berry, Ross
CALIFORNIA Costa, Farr, Filner, Loretta
COLORADO Salazar
GEORGIA Barrow, Bishop, Lewis, Scott
ILLINOIS Bean, Costello
IOWA Boswell
KENTUCKY Chandler
LOUISIANA Jefferson, Melancon
MARYLAND Ruppersberger, Wynn
MINNESOTA Peterson
MISSOURI Clay, Skelton
NEVADA Berkley
NEW YORK Israel, McCarthy, Towns
NORTH CAROLINA Butterfield, McIntyre
OHIO Ryan
OKLAHOMA Boren
OREGON Hooley
TENNESSEE Davis, Gordon
TEXAS Cuellar, Edwards, Hinojosa, Jackson-Lee
UTAH Matheson
VIRGINIA Boucher
WASHINGTON Larsen
WEST VIRGINIA Rahall

[LoZoccolo]

1. Why don't you list the Republicans?

I bet many more of them voted for it.

[stevedeshazer]

3. That's a given

I'll be writing Darlene Hooley for sure.

[Terre]

8. She's on my shit list now

I just faxed her this morning about my "displeasure" at her co-sponsoring the Bankruptcy Reform Bill. I just found that out, or would have done so sooner.

Looks like she's gonna get another FAX from me.

Funny, even though she's not representing my district, and is a Dem, I detested her campaign ads. All I remember of them though, is that they rubbed me the wrong way.

[Career Prole]

5. How's about I list the Repukes who voted 'No'? It's shorter.

IOWA Republicans — Leach, N

[sendero]

17. Thank you..

.... for getting and saying it :)

[Career Prole]

20. They're a lockstep bunch

aren't they? :toast:

[Cha]

2. I shocked at

Jackson-Lee!

salazar is being true to form.

[montanacowboy]

4. Why would she do such a stupid thing?

what is wrong with her?

[sandnsea]

6. Ranchers?

That might be why Hooley of Oregon voted for it. She represents alot of ranchers and they think their family farms will get eaten up in estate taxes. It might be true, there's alot of big farms in her district. Is that true for Jackson-Lee? I don't know.

[Terre]

12. She should know

and her constituents also, about whether they would be hit with a huge estate tax. Thinking that it might happen doesn't make it so.

But let's say that it does. Do those huge estate ranchers represent the majority of her constituents, and what about the rest of Oregon, the Country, and our friggin' debt!

I think this woman is a Repub maskerading as a Dem.

[sandnsea]

22. I don't know

I wasn't saying Hooley and Jackson-Lee didn't know. Of course they know. I would suspect huge ranchers and family owned logging operations, and their employees, DO make up a large majority of Darlene's constituents and if that's what she needed to do to win in 2 years, that's the way it is. I only hope DeFazio's vote doesn't hurt him, since the thing was going to pass anyway. Practicality does have its place once in a while.

[Career Prole]

21. I have to admit that one was a bit disappointing to me as well... n/t

[paulk]

24. that's John Salazar -

not sure if you knew that

[Cha]

27. No, I didn't know..got a

Little confused..thinking it was Ken and the Congresspeople..:silly:

[flpoljunkie]

25. To give Salazar some credit, he did vote for the Democratic substitute.

[Lone Pawn]

7. So...what?

What do you want us to do with this? Form a nice circular firing squad and take out our own people so the Republicans don't have to spend any money to do so?

[Career Prole]

10. Two words...

Informed Electorate.

[Lone Pawn]

11. Yeah, great. Democracy in all that.

But seriously, what result do you hope to have with this? At a moment in which we just caught the Republicans off guard and fractured, in this rare instance in which they've started turning on one of their own...tell me what you want us to do. Should we, instead of writing Republicans to ask them to dump DeLay and Democrats to tell them to kick this guy's ass, should we instead be attacking Democrats who voted 'the wrong way' this one time?

[Career Prole]

13. So you don't think constituencies should know when their representatives

vote against their interests?
This is informative, and valuable information at that.
It's not the decisive vote, but it's a vote which should be considered, and if you think it's unwise to complain to your representative when they fail to represent you then I do wish you'd point out your reasoning behind that conclusion.

[Lone Pawn]

15. I have no problem with complaining and just that.

But the problem is people refusing to vote for the lesser of two evils when the time comes, and refusing to support the lesser evil once it's in office. Christ, no wonder we can't win an election to save our lives.

[Career Prole]

19. Okay then! That was the whole idea.

They need the feedback, whether it's an "attaboy" (or girl) over slammin' DeLay or an "aw shit" over an ill-advised vote.
I'm not calling for the tar and feathers. :)

[Terre]

14. This one time?

this one time?

Hooley now has at least two strikes against her that I know of. And that's one too many.

If Liebermann is fair game for attack on the stands he takes, then so are other turncoat Dems. I don't want them a part of my party.

When they don't vote or support the interests of the 'regular Joe's' of this nation, they're not worth my support either.

[Lone Pawn]

16. Well. Two votes against her. I guess you might as well just

dump her for a Republican who would have accumulated 20 strikes against him by this time.

[Terre]

23. Oh com'on

I wouldn't go that far, and it's unfair for you to suggest I would. Then again, maybe she has more than 2 strikes against her?

I've never paid any attention to her votes until just recently, and two votes contrary to the majority of Dems on this, and the Bankruptcy issue, is just a bit hard to swallow.

[sendero]

18. Since when ...

... is it "this one time". Our party is infested and infected with people who might as well be Repubs, they NEVER VOTE RIGHT.

FUCK THEM.

[flpoljunkie]

9. Roll call vote on Pomeroy's Democratic substitute bill.

http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2005&rollnumber=101

We even lost some here. Shame on them. The Pomeroy substitute would raise the bar to $6 million for couples and $3 million for individuals next year--2006 and again in 2009 to $3.5 and $7 million!

This means 99.7% of taxpayers will not have to pay any estate tax--yet this was not enough for the Rethugs and about a half dozen of our Dems--let's call them the "public servants for the uber rich."

[WLKjr]

26. These people are DINO's n/t