( - promoted by Daniel De Groot)
Yesterday, 24 Democrats voted against the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, even after the bill was changed at the behest of a coalition of New Democrats and Blue Dogs. Here is a list of these twenty-four Democrats, along with their three votes on TARP. This way, we can see which Democrats want to give money to Wall Street, but don't want to give money to homeowners: The votes are here:
1--Bailout #1, September 29th
2--Bailout #2, October 30th
3--Bailout #3, January 28th
In every case, a "Y" refers to the vote that gave money to Wall Street, and a "N" refers to a vote against giving Wall Street money. ("A" refers to not voting.)
Totally for Wall Street, no for Homeonwers
Rick Boucher: Y, Y, A
Chet Edwards: Y, Y, Y
Bart Gordon: Y, Y, Y
Partially for Wall Street, no for Homeowners
Mike Arcuri: Y, Y, N (Obama 51% in NY-24)
Marion Berry: Y, Y, N
Dan Boren: Y, Y, N
Brad Ellsworth: Y, Y, N (Obama 47% in IN-08)
Ron Kind: Y, Y, N (Obama 58% in WI-03)
Consistent:
Bobby Bright: N
Chris Carney: N, N, N
Travis Childers: N, N, N
Kathy Dahlkemper: N
Lincoln Davis: N, N, N
Parker Griffith: N
Baron Hill: N, N, N
Tim Holden: N, N, N
Larry Kissell: N
Frank Kratovil: N
Betsy Markey N
Eric Massa: N (what the fuck Massa?)
Jim Matheson: N, N, N
Bart Stupak: N, N, N
Gene Taylor: N, N, N
Harry Teague N
Given that they represent blue districts, if either Ron Kind or Mike Arcuri was to vote against President Obama's budget, it should be open season on both of them in their 2010 primaries. To vote to hand hundreds of billions over to Wall Street, but then to oppose even a New Democrat approved housing bill and oppose President Obama's budget--at that point, you simply don't deserve to be a Democratic nominee for Congress anymore.
Ron Kind in particular needs to go, as he was a pro-FISA rewrite, pro-Iraq blank check Bush Dog on top of all this. As such, I don't even really care how Ron Kind votes on the budget--he has crossed the line way too many times for an Obama 58% district. Let's get a primary challenger on him now. Even with Wisconsin's open primary laws, that is an exceptionally winnable primary campaign.
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