12 Worthless Democrats

In the most demoralizing vote since the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, ~~eleven~~ twelve worthless Democrats just earned my undying enmity by voting against cramdown.

Max Baucus (D-MT)
Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Tom Carper (D-DE)
Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Arlen Specter (D-PA)
Jon Tester (D-MT)

Honorable mention: Evan Bayh (D-IN)- who did all he could to kill cramdown in committee and then thought he could be cute and vote for it on the floor.

I am especially pissed off at Dorgan and Tester who are both normally much better than this. This is one of the most disgraceful least defensible votes I have ever seen.

16 Comments

Brendan Skwire on April 30, 2009 at 7:41 pm

landrieu is such a piece of garbage.

she’s a truly rotten democrat and has been for a LONG time.

a nd don’t get me started on carper, who co-sponosred the bankruptcy bill. royal assholes.

BooMan on April 30, 2009 at 7:45 pm

yeah, and Kaufman voted for cramdown, so don’t tell me a Delaware senator can’t vote against the credit card companies. And Conrad voted for it, so Dorgan can bite me. Normally, Dorgan is the better of that pair by far.

Brendan Skwire on April 30, 2009 at 7:42 pm

on the other hand, casey was on the right side.
for once.

BooMan on April 30, 2009 at 7:43 pm

Casey always votes the correct way on these types of issues. I wasn’t even worried about him. Our other d-bag Democratic senator wasn’t so compassionate.
- Zandar1 on April 30, 2009 at 7:45 pm
  
  Hell’s Bells, can we give Arlen BACK to the GOP?
BooMan on April 30, 2009 at 7:47 pm

Jim Bunning needs a rape kit after what McConnell pulled on him today.
- Oscar In Dallas on April 30, 2009 at 7:51 pm
  
  The Rude One had a similar perspective on Specter…
- Brendan Skwire on May 1, 2009 at 1:25 pm
  
  oooh, do tell, i missed that one1
  - BooMan on May 1, 2009 at 1:28 pm
    
    You can read about here or here.
  - dada on May 1, 2009 at 1:40 pm
    
    looks like mitch took specters defection as an opportunity to call bunning’s bluff.
    
    loose cannon, indeed.

rikyrah on April 30, 2009 at 8:50 pm

Thanks for pointing them out. I was watching Ed Schultz and wondered who the traitor Dems were.

robertdsc on April 30, 2009 at 9:31 pm

So what was the point of having 60 votes? Could someone remind me, please?

MikeInOhio on April 30, 2009 at 10:43 pm

Hell, in this lifetime it will take 75 Dems in the Senate to have a chance at getting 60 votes.

How pathetic is that?
- Oscar In Dallas on May 1, 2009 at 12:57 am
  
  The pathetic thing is that the current incarnation of the GOP could make that 75 number possible…
Superpole on May 1, 2009 at 12:09 pm

Look, please.. we HAVE to wake up here.

DO we want progressive legislation or not??