One of my posters responding to my endorsement of Rosalind Kurita said that Harold Ford Junior was one of the most liberal congressmen in Washington.
Another of my readers sent me an article from Chris Bowers' wonderful MyDD.com chronicling how our House members voted on critical partisan issues in this Congress.
Let's look and see, shall we? From the article:
Overall
Democratic Loyalty: 82.4% (83.4%)
Republican Loyalty: 94.8% (94.5%)
Democratic Loyalty deficit: 12.4% (11.1%)
Total Votes for the Democratic Majority Position: 41.2%
Total Votes for the Republican Majority Position: 58.8%
Seats needed to take true majority control: 50
Democratic Caucuses
Progressive Caucus: 96.1% (97.3%)
Dem, non-progressive: 77.9%
New Democratic Caucus: 80.6% (80.7%)
Dem, non-New Dem: 82.9%
Blue Dog Caucus: 59.2% (57.1%)
Dem, non-Blue Dog: 87.3% (88.9%)
Non-aligned Democrats: 83.1% (85.2%)
Right now, there have been twenty-five Democrats and two Republicans who have voted against the majority position of their party at least half of the time:
Republicans
Seven Defections: Christopher Shays
Eight Defections: Ron Paul
Democrats
Seven Defections (9 members): Bean, Berry, Chandler, Ford, Lipinski, Matheson, Rahall, Ross, Skelton
That means on FOURTEEN critical Democratic issues, the man who wants to be your DEMOCRATIC nominee voted AGAINST HIS PARTY HALF THE TIME. That's some kinda liberalism, folks, the kind that should get you BEATEN in a Democratic primary.
Click on the link for more information. If, after you read this, you STILL think I'm the second coming of Lester Maddox because I won't vote for Ford in the primary, there's just no hope for some people.
3 comments:
Good information. Here is something from David Sirota's blog:
"Pollster Andy Kohut at the Pew Research Center said agitation by liberal groups may be evidence 'of vitality in the Democratic Party' and a sign that party leaders have lost touch with many supporters."
We are not beholden to elected officials, elected officials are beholden to their constituents. Down with the DLC! Let's start by dumping Ford.
polar,
In the immortal words of Gus Grissom, as portrayed in the movie The Right Stuff, "F*ckin' A, Bubba!"
What Len said--- hold the *.
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