Word up on the Hill this morning is that the stimulus bill is starting to lose Blue Dog votes over the IMF. And Red State is now sending out emails targeting vulnerable Democrats:
Barack Obama wants to bail out European banks.
We can stop him.
No, it is no joke. He really wants to. He is going to send the International Monetary Fund billions of dollars that will then be used to do in Europe what Obama has done here.
House Republicans are going to vote in a block to oppose this, which means around thirty Democrats are needed. The Blue Dog Democrats are logical targets. Those Democrats who represent districts that tilt Republican can be pressured. And among them, the freshman Blue Dogs can really be pressured.
Call 202-224-3121. Ask for the members of Congress below and tell them to oppose H.R. 2346, the 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act.
Bobby Bright AL-02
Parker Griffith AL-05
Ann Kirkpatrick AZ-01
Suzanne Kosmos FL-24
Walt Mitnick ID-01
Frank Kratovil MD-01
Glenn Nye VA-02
Tom Perriello VA-05Once you’ve called these people, use the same number and call these members, all of whom are in heavy Republican districts:
Travis Childers (MS-01)
Harry Mitchell (AZ-05)
Gabby Giffords (AZ-08)
Jim Marshall (GA-08)
John Barrow (GA-12)
Bill Foster (IL-14)
Baron Hill (IN-09)Sincerely yours,
Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com
I realize that beating progressives into voting against their conscience in order to give Blue Dogs cover seemed like a smart strategy when you joined the IMF and the war funding supplemental in the first place, Rahm, but it looks like you’ve just laid a trap for your own conservative Democrats to step into.
If Democrats in red districts have their vote to bail out Euroopean banks hung around their necks and lose to Republicans in 2010 as a result, don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Related posts:
- Red State Targets Blue Dogs Who Vote for IMF Bailout
- Supplemental: Why Must Progressive Members of Congress Grovel For the Blue Dogs?
- GOP Will Target Blue Dogs Who Vote “Yes” on IMF, Senior Republican Campaign Official Confirms
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Are they smart enough to figure that out?
Too smart by half, it looks like.
This is why I have never understood a political “wisdom” that views the Quisling as the smartest and most consummate politician.
Collaborators are always traitors to the loyalists they sell out and mercenary opportunists to those they help. Nobody ever trusts them again. Their new masters use them until they are used up, then throw them away. The masters don’t treat them to high political office.
So why do Rahm and his ilk think that being Vichy Democrats is such a smart political ploy? Do they really believe that appeasement of and collaboration with the Republican Reich is going to give their little client state a place in some Permanent 1000-Year Majority?
Brings to mind Benedict Arnold who sold us out to the British overlords as he wasn’t getting his way…
Joe ‘dual citizens’ Lieberman can be loyal to USA and his Isreal citizenship? This issue of Isreal being in control of the USA is a little to real for my comfort zone. What is good for Isreal is good for USA meme does not fly. “”No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches…” qoute Jesus Christ Matthew 6:24
The holocaust covers a multitude of sins…wrong is never right.
Explain your Holocaust comment please? I don’t see the connection.
As most know I’m not real fond of Terry McAuliffe but within hours of his defeat he emailed his supporters to financially support Deeds for govenator of VA. Credit where credit is due, that was classy. Now, Terry, go away.
Don’t feed the troll.
The execrable Rahm has a point. Blue Dog Dems are vulnerable to challenges from their right; meanwhile virtually no Dem has a credible threat from the left.
Of course, why vote for either, if Dems are typically indistinguishable from Repubs, and are at best Repub-lite?
We continue to face the ‘lesser evil’ problem. For me, each time the test is: how evil? how much less?
So I guess our task is to continue to build a progressive movement. Thanks to FDL for helping us do it.
BT’s upstairs
I’m confused. I thought Obama was going to turn us into limp-wristed Europeans. How does he do that if he does in Europe what he has done here?
Stalking me SD? Sounded anti-semitic to me. That ok with you?
I called my Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick and used the IMF line last week. It sounded like she wasn’t in the loop yet.
Breaking news, upstairs
Octogenarian White Supremacist Shoots 2 at Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C.
My Farmer’s Allmaniac says, “If Rahmsputin is for it, can it really be good for the USA?
Wait. Do the Red Staters realize they’re actually AGREEING with us pinko-fascio-hard left progressives?
Should we point it out? Would the heads-essploding spectacle be worth it?
Funny Wheelie Diva
I am 51, and I can tell you politics has been, is, and always will be about the lesser of 2 evils. And those of you that refuse to choose the lesser, will surely end up with the greater.
Hey redfish, ever get an answer from Harman about cluster bombs?