Democracy Sold Out-The Names of the 15

[dogday]

CAFTA Approved by Pork and a Hill of Beans
Razor Thin Vote Seals Fate Against More Expansion of NAFTA

by Deborah James

At 12:03 am on July 28th, the House of Representatives approved the Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement, CAFTA. CAFTA, which would expand NAFTA to Central America and the Dominican Republic, would devastate farmers, privatize essential public services, and accelerate the race to the bottom on wages in the US and all over Central America.

At the end of the allotted 15 minutes of voting time the count was 180 to 175 against CAFTA, so the Republican leadership kept the vote open over an hour, in order to bully legislators into approving the bill. In the final tally, which was 217 to 215, a full 15 Democrats voted in favor of big business by supporting CAFTA, while 25 Republicans defied the Bush Administration and voted against it. Democrats deserving of punishment include Representatives Bean (D-IL), Cooper (D-TN), Dicks (D-WA), Cuellar (D-WA), Hinojosa (D-TX), Jefferson (D-LA), Matheson (D-UT), Meeks (D-NY), Moore (D-KS), Moran (D-VA), Ortiz (D-TX), Skelton (D-MO), Snyder (D-AR), Tanner (D-TN), and Towns (D-NY). The full roll call vote is available at http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2005&rollnumber=443.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0728-20.htm

[whistle]

1. What punishment should these DINOs receive....

...crushed glass injected in the large bowel or evisceration followed by being drawn and quartered?

[FreedomAngel82]

10. More like fired

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. I find myself more astonished that 25 repubs voted against it

than that 15 dems voted for it. If our side had held firm, it would have gone down in flames.

[dogday]

3. Yes, and thats what makes this so important

to call and write to those Democrats who sold us out....

[DaveinMD]

6. likely

those Republicans would have been forced to vote for it.

[ochazuke]

4. Two of them from the Kansas City area

Dennis Moore (not the one of Monty Python fame) and Ike Skelton (kin to Red).

The thing about punishing them is, their districts would likely go Republican if they aren't heading the Dem. ticket.

[dubyaD40web]

9. Since I'm in Dennis Moore's District:

I just sent him a nice little e-mail.

~End Sarcasm

[dogday]

5. kick

[theHandpuppet]

7. What's up with Washington and New York??

Damn, I never expected that.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

12. Did ya notice that Capito voted nay?...............

Probably setting herself up as a "woman of the people" for her run against Byrd.

[Zorra]

8. Targeting the 15 Democratic Sellouts Who Passed CAFTA

by David Sirota

We now know who the 15 Democrats are that each undermined their party and America's middle class by casting the deciding vote for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). The bill passed by one vote, meaning each of the 15 Democrats cast the deciding vote. When 27 Republicans vote against their own party leadership as they did on CAFTA, Democrats have only these 15 sellouts within their ranks - and groups like the DLC that pushed CAFTA - to blame for the fact that the Democratic Party has been relegated to permanent minority status
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Starting with bankruptcy, we get the list whittled down to 12: Bean, Cooper, Cuellar, Hinojosa, Jefferson, Matheson, Meeks, Moore, Moran, Ortiz, Skelton and Tanner.

Moving to the bill that limits citizens' legal rights and protects corporations that abuse ordinary Americans, the list gets whittled down to 9: Bean, Cooper, Cuellar, Hinojosa, Matheson, Meeks, Moore, Moran and Tanner.

These are the 9 Democrats who are the difference between House Democrats being in the majority and the minority - they are the people who undermine the vast majority of honest/courageous Democrats who fight for ordinary people in Congress everyday. They are the ones who make it consistenly impossible for Democrats to deliver a message that they are the party that stands up for ordinary working people in this country. The fact is, if Democrats are going to be in the minority for the forseeable future, it would be better if these folks were defeated, because they do more harm than good to a party that desperately needs unity to let America knows what it stands for.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0728-21.htm

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. Excellent article --

I have to wonder, how many of those fatal 9 got those victory margins because of their positions, and how many won simply because they were democrats, and opposing republicans? If those who voted for them were voting on their positions, wouldn't they have voted for Republicans in the first place?

They are sailing under false colors. Time to trim their sheets.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

11. self delete

[lonestarnot]

14. I can see the moron Moran excuse, but what did the others get for their

sell-out?