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Meet the Seventeen… Erm. “Not-Traitors”… to Eric Holder.

"Treason doth never prosper*...?"

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 28th, 2012 at 08:30 PM  | 

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And what a fascinating rogues’ gallery they are, too.  Via @GeorgiaTipsheet, meet the seventeen Democrats who voted to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his ongoing coverup of the Fast & Furious gunrunning schedule:

Candidate District Opponent
Mike Ross AR-04 Tom Cotton
John Barrow GA-12 TBD
Leonard Boswell IA-03 Tom Latham
Joe Donnelly IN-SEN Richard Mourdock
Ben Chandler KY-06 Andy Barr
Tim Walz MN-01 TBD
Collin Peterson MN-07 TBD
Mike McIntryre NC-07 David Rouzer
Larry Kissell NC-08 TBD
BIll Owens NY-21 Matt Doheny
Kathy Hochul NY-27 Chris Collins
Dan Boren Retiring TBD
Mark Critz PA-12 Keith Rothus
Jason Altmire Retiring -
Jim Matheson UT-04 Mia Love
Ron Kind WI-03 TBD
Nick Rahall WV-03 Rick Snuffer

Of the seventeen, two are retiring (one unwillingly), one is currently in the process of losing the Indiana Senate race, three (Kind, Peterson, & Walz) are currently rated as being in ‘safe’ districts… and the other eleven are pretty much scared out of their minds that they’re going to be tossed out on their ears in November.  With good reason: every one of these people have been tainted by their willingness to enable House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s radical agenda, and the GOP will cheerfully replace them with actual conservatives – i.e., Republicans – in a heartbeat.

And the funny part?  If the Democrats want to even pretend to be trying to get the House back, they’re going to have to support every single one of these candidates who is running for re-election.  Because if the Democrats don’t… well.  It’s enough of an absurdity that the Democrats can get 25 seats back (particularly since every challenger out there learned today that he or she now has to explain why he or she is in favor of Obamacare’s half trillion dollar health tax).  But to risk losing a bunch of seats on top of that?  That’s absurdity thrown up on top of absurdity.  Nope, honestly, no real choice here for the Democrats.  But that’s all right.  After all, nobody who matters on the Democratic side will be affected by the necessity to reward these Democrats’ not-treason.  What’s that?  What about the progressive sacrificial lambs who won’t get DCCC money because it has to go to somebody who back-stabbed Eric Holder?

Bless your heart, but what part of ‘nobody who matters‘ was unclear?

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*”…What’s the reason?/ Why, if it prosper / None DARE call it treason.”

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  • renny

    a bipartisan vote, as he proclaimed after Scott Brown and Snowe voted for Dodd-(Frank).

  • gflyer3364qt

    All the Democrats were protesting the motion. They were all arguing that somehow since Congress has never held a sitting AG in contempt before that it was taboo to do such a thing. It was funny watching them trying to act like they actually cared about the issue or the Terry family. Nancy Pelosi floor address was laughable. She even forgot Brian Terry’s last name. Pronounced it “Taylor.” Half of the Dems walked out on the vote. They said they were protesting, but they were just afraid to go on record.

  • califgal

    on behalf of the opponents of the Dem House member and on behalf of Romney showing Nancy Pelosi and Reid and Obama together and the video of Pelosi saying, “We have to pass the law before we know what’s in the law.”

  • califgal

    busy reading blogs about Obama care and traitor Roberts.

    So, I’d run ads of Pelosi dissing an American putting his life on the line for us and dissing the family of Mr. Brian Terry.

    The only words needed on the screen after she speaks is, “His name is Brian Terry, Ms. Pelosi.”

  • camilo06

    Any information on why two Republicans voted against the resolution (LaTourette and Rigell)? And what’s the story with Lewis not voting at all?

  • checkmate2012

    voted out for turning a blind eye to the Rule of Law. We all know if it was a Rep. AG the story would be different…oh we’ve read this book before and they did vote for contempt in a committee anyway.Pelosi still thinks she can throw Rove in her prison.

    Holder and O are getting a taste of their own medicine…finally!

  • ashland_avenue

    It it’s good for Trayvon Martin, it’s good for Brian Terry.

  • gflyer3364qt

    Doesn’t really matter now. I was suprised to see 238 of the 241 Republicans vote in favor of the measure. There was a continue thought that a few dozen might cave and vote against it. Cheers to them. They stood firm.

  • gflyer3364qt

    This isn’t the whole speech, but it’s all I could find so far. I couldn’t make any sense of it. Can anyone else…didn’t think so.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoMTO7FAVXY&feature=plcp

  • reggie1

    I just read a post somewhere else, claiming that Roberts did not kill Obamacare, but gave us the weapon to do it. By classifying the mandate as a tax, it can be repealed by 51 senate votes, not needing 60. And irony of ironies, this is the same tactic Reid used to pass the monstrosity before Scott Brown could arrive. Thoughts, please…

  • gekster

    Now it can be killed by reconciliation, or something like that.

  • checkmate2012

    Short gain for long pain. Yes since it’s now a tax and done with the reconciliation process, we can undo it with same, meaning only 51 votes.

    But most don’t recall how we got here and the Dems set the whole thing in motion exactly 100 days into the Obama administration and DUPED us from the start.

  • gflyer3364qt

    If they passed it with reconciliation, we sure as hell can repeal it with reconciliation. The other thing is that the Republicans will win the Senate and the Presidency by significant margins and Obamacare remains unpopular. There are a round vulnerable Democrats, from ceter-right states where Obamacare is very unpopular, up for reelection in 2014. Several got lucky and rode in on the 2008 wave. The same year Obamacare goes into full effect. I bet we get some defectors.

    Vulnerable seeking reelection in 2014:
    Mark Begich of Alasks
    Mark Pryor of Arkansas
    Tom Harkin of Iowa
    Mary Landrieu of Louisiana
    Max Baucus of Montana
    Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire

    Vulnerable may seek reelection 2014:
    Mark Udall of Colorado
    Kay Hagan of North Carolina
    Tim Johnson of South Dakota
    Mark Warner of Virginia

  • SoFiMil

    .

  • SoFiMil

    Powerful and effective.

  • SoFiMil

    First I’ve heard of it.

    My take in the decision: While I disagree with Chief Justice Roberts decision, I thought it was logical and brilliant. While I found his tax argument a stretch, in my opinion it wasn’t an outlandish stretch and I could follow the thought process.

  • SoFiMil

    http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/wh-forgets-name-of-border-patrol-agent-killed-in-fast-and-furious/article/2500281

  • http://www.chicagobluesgirl.com chicagobluesgirl

    The Republicans who voted against contempt:

    Ohio Rep. Steven LaTourette.
    Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.)

  • celador2

    It was not judicial restraint that Chief Justice Roberts execised when he joined the liberals and legislated a new tax after declaring the mandate unconstitutional under CC. Roberts rewrote the statue so it could be declared constitutional as a tax. According to Roberts under the guise of judicial restraint he wrote a tax law.

    Roberts rebuffed his usual allies whose dissent made sense. ACA expanded the scope of federal power and had no such authority. ACA should not stand, they said. The dissenters protected the states and the people of the US from an ever expanding federal govrnment take over of what once was a free market private sector commerical activity.

    There are very rare time a judge must use a hammer. ACA was one of them.

  • acat
  • celador2

    Ron KInd from Wisconsin is from a farm district on the Mississppi river. He has held the seat since about 1992 after a Republican retired. In 2010 the GOP picked up many House seats and Pelosi lost the Speakership. She returned anyway for 2011 as minority leader. In the election for House Speaker which was won by John Boehner Democrats voted for others than Pelosi as well as for Pelosi.

    Ron KInd did not vote for Pelosi, I think he voted for Steny Hoyer. He covers the bases so as not to give red meat for a political ad like voting for Pelosi. But his vote for Holder contempt is a decent thing to do and does not get the mileage a no to Pelosi does.

  • davenj1

    Read the decision. More importantly, the concurrence reads like a great dissent. I know liberals are knee-jerk types. Please, let not conservatives also be knee-jerk types.

  • Vaughn Harold

    by writting that the government cannot force people into commerce through a mandate, and then he exposed this piece of garbage for what it is by letting the whole country know that the government wants to tax non participation in health insurance. The American people will not stand for this type of taxation!

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    Moe Lane once again showing why he is the most hated internet blogger on DKos (seriously Moe has a 50 room beach house in their brains – it is a lonely place for him though) puts it exactly correctly…

    “particularly since every challenger out there learned today that he or she now has to explain why he or she is in favor of Obamacare?s half trillion dollar health tax”

    so Acat how about…

    Obama’s Half Trillion Dollar Health Tax