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The Earmark Eight, and the Food Fifteen

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  November 30th, 2010 at 01:57 PM  | 

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Everyone is busy analyzing what the Democrats have learned from the midterm elections.  The real question is what Republicans have learned from this election.  Within 25 minutes, 8 Republicans voted to continue the practice of pork barrel spending, while 15 voted to give the FDA unlimited power to shut down food producers and cut jobs.

Here is a list of the 8 Republicans who voted against the Coburn AMDT. to S.510 (S. AMDT. 4697), which would have placed a moratorium on earmarks.

Bennett (R-UT)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)

Inhofe (R-OK)

Lugar (R-IN)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Shelby (R-AL)
Voinovich (R-OH)

Here is a list of those 15 Republicans who supported the unconstitutional, food-Nazi, job killing bill. (S.510)

Alexander (R-TN)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Collins (R-ME)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kirk (R-IL)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Lugar (R-IN)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Snowe (R-ME)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)

The amazing thing about both lists is that they include so many names from ruby red states like Utah, Mississippi, Alabama, Indiana, Wyoming, etc.  Is this the best that we can do from such conservative states?  Do the Democrats elect Senators from deep blue states Vermont and California who vote with conservatives?  Also, it is interesting to note that Mark Kirk has wasted no time in joining the Senate and voting with the Dems.  And as we predicted, Joe Manchin has voted with the Democrat leadership every single time!  With friends like these who needs enemies?

Cross-posted to Red Meat Conservative

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  • pilgrim

    Only 15 states out of 50 had at least one Senator vote No on the Food Safety bill. There are about twice that many states with a Republican Governor and republican mjority in the State legislature. Here are the 35 States that had only Yes votes for this bill.

    Missouri: Bond (R-MO), Not Voting McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
    Nebraska: Johanns (R-NE), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Yea
    Iowa: Grassley (R-IA), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Yea
    Illinois: Durbin (D-IL), Yea Kirk (R-IL), Yea
    Indiana: Bayh (D-IN), Yea Lugar (R-IN), Yea
    West Virginia: Manchin (D-WV), Yea Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
    Pennsylvania: Casey (D-PA), Yea Specter (D-PA), Yea
    Ohio: Brown (D-OH), Yea Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
    Michigan: Levin (D-MI), Yea Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
    Wisconsin: Feingold (D-WI), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Yea
    Minnesota: Franken (D-MN), Yea Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
    North Dakota: Conrad (D-ND), Yea Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
    Montana: Baucus (D-MT), Yea Tester (D-MT), Yea
    Arkansas: Lincoln (D-AR), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Yea
    Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA), Yea Vitter (R-LA), Yea
    New Mexico: Bingaman (D-NM), Yea Udall (D-NM), Yea
    Colorado: Bennet (D-CO), Yea Udall (D-CO), Yea
    Vermont: Leahy (D-VT), Yea Sanders (I-VT), Yea
    Maine: Collins (R-ME), Yea Snowe (R-ME), Yea
    Rhode Island: Reed (D-RI), Yea Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
    Massachusetts: Brown (R-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Yea
    New Hampshire: Gregg (R-NH), Yea Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
    Connecticut: Dodd (D-CT), Yea Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
    New Jersey: Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
    New York: Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea Schumer (D-NY), Yea
    Maryland: Cardin (D-MD), Yea Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
    Delaware: Carper (D-DE), Yea Coons (D-DE), Yea
    Virginia: Warner (D-VA), Yea Webb (D-VA), Yea
    North Carolina: Burr (R-NC), Yea Hagan (D-NC), Yea
    Florida: LeMieux (R-FL), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea
    Alaska: Begich (D-AK), Yea Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
    Oregon: Merkley (D-OR), Yea Wyden (D-OR), Yea
    Washington: Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea
    California: Boxer (D-CA), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
    Hawaii: Akaka (D-HI), Yea Inouye (D-HI), Yea