Here are the Democrats who didn’t cave:
Abercrombie, Ackerman, Allen, Andrews, Arcuri, Baca, Baldwin,
Becerra, Bishop (NY), Blumenauer, Boswell, Brady (PA), Braley (IA), Butterfield, Capps, Capuano, Cardoza, Carnahan, Castor, Clarke, Clay, Cleaver, Cohen, Conyers, Costello, Courtney, Crowley, Cummings, Davis (IL), DeFazio, DeGette, Delahunt, DeLauro, Doggett, Doyle, Duncan, Ellison, Engel, Eshoo, Farr, Fattah, Filner, Frank (MA), Green, Al, Grijalva, Gutierrez, Hall (NY), Hare, Harman, Higgins, Hinchey, Hirono, Hodes, Holt, Honda, Inslee, Israel, Jackson (IL), Jackson-Lee (TX), Johnson (GA), Jones (OH), Kagen, Kaptur, Kennedy, Kilpatrick, Klein (FL), Langevin, Lantos, Larson (CT), Lee, Lewis (GA), Lipinski, Loebsack, Lofgren (Zoe), Lowey, Maloney (NY), Matsui, McCarthy (NY), McCollum (MN), McDermott, McGovern, McNerney, Meek (FL), Meeks (NY), Michaud, Miller (NC), Miller (George), Moore (WI), Moran (VA), Murphy (CT), Murphy (Patrick), Nadler, Napolitano, Neal (MA), Oberstar, Obey, Olver, Pallone, Pascrell, Payne, Perlmutter, Price (NC), Rahall, Rangel, Richardson, Rothman, Roybal-Allard, Ryan (OH), Sánchez (Linda T.), Sánchez (Loretta), Sarbanes, Schakowsky, Schiff, Scott (VA), Serrano, Shea-Porter, Sherman, Sires, Slaughter, Smith (WA), Solis, Stark, Stupak, Sutton, Tauscher, Thompson (MS), Tierney, Towns, Tsongas, Udall (NM), Van Hollen, Velázquez, Wasserman Schultz, Waters, Watson, Watt, Waxman, Weiner, Welch (VT), Wu, Wynn, Yarmuth.Democrats not voting: Hastings (FL), Hooley, Jefferson, Johnson (E.B.), Kucinich, Markey, McNulty, Pastor, Thompson (CA), Wexler, Woolsey
Nonetheless, it is a sad commentary on our times that the Democrats couldn’t get their act together on this. It’s interesting to note that Steny Hoyer, the Majority Leader, and Rahm Emanuel, the Chair of the DCCC, who insists that we race bait the immigration issue and who recruits right wingers to run for Congress as Democrats, are among the Democrats who, by process of elimination, must have voted to enable Bush’s wars. There is something very wrong when the leaders can’t get in front of the led. The first item of business in 2009 should be to show these folks back to the back benches.
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