Minority Leader said he would deliver and YES he did indeed…Here are 14 votes which Boehner should have had:
David Davis – Defeated in primary and is NOT standing for re-election. Voted NO.
Jerry Weller – Retiring and yet he doesn’t even show up for the vote.
David Reichert – Seattle based Washington Mutual collapsed and unlike Shays and Kirk, both who represent districts dependent on the financial services, Reichert’s district is also dependent, yet he votes NO.
Louie Gohment, Jeb Hensarling, Michael Conway, and Ted Poe – None are facing an opponent and ALL are Bush prodigies from Texas, yet four more NO votes.
Scott Garrett – Another district that employs many on Wall Street and the financial service industry. Another NO vote.
Judy Biggert – One again another district dependent on the financial service industry and another NO vote.
Kevin McCarthy – No opponent this year and yet another NO vote.
Ginny Brown-Waite – Represents the district with the largest concentration of retirees. Wonder if she knows that their retirement investments are becoming worthless. Another NO vote.
Duncan Hunter – Retiring and represents a strong Republican district. Voting NO once again.
Lee Terry – Hopefully Warren Buffet will turn out the brigades to finally defeat your incompetence. Another NO vote.
Chris Smith – Another district dependent on the financial services. Expect this race to tighten as a result of Smith’s NO vote.
Vulnerable Republicans that voted YEA:
Chris Shays and Mark Kirk – Both districts highly dependent on financial service industry.
Peter King – A NO vote would have had disastrous effects on King.
Frank Wolf and Jon Porter – Democratic leaning districts and vulnerable more than ever.
Democrats who are largely SAFE which bucked the party. They also represent districts which are sufferring:
– A large number from the Congressional Black Caucus (Butterfield, Jackson, Jackson Lee, Conyers, Cummings, Green, Edwards, Clay, Johnson, Payne, Thompson, Lee, Rush, Scott, Lewis, Kilpatrick, and Watson).
– A large number of Hispanic members also bucked the party (Baca, Napolitano, Pastor, Serrano, Roybal-Allard, Linda Sanchez, Becerra, and Solis). These would have provided a decent number of votes as well.
– Then there are of course the Democrats facing no opponent that also voted NO (Lynch and Delahunt from MA, AND Welch from VT).
Pelosi definately didn’t do a good job winning over these coalitions. Those alone would have passed the bill. Enough blame for BOTH sides.
Because I don’t. Though not for the reasons most of the republicans opposed it today. Have you seen the poll numbers on this bailout? I have a hard time believing anyone who voted against this will see any voter backlash. More of the opposite in fact.
And good for my Democratic Rep. for voting no as well.
Any Dem who supported the bill as is should be primaried and that includes Barney Frank and La Pelosi.