Eleven Courageous Democrats
NYTimes Interactive Graphic: House Vote on H.R.1: Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year ending 2009
Comment: Kathee and I were discussing this morning the eleven who voted "no" on the 825 Billion Dollar Boondoggle. My guess was that they were all Blue Dog Democrats from the South. I was nearly right.
Wow, that really was amazing that they voted against party lines!
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Paul, who is also a member of the House Financial Services Committee, warned that such measures will cause a recession to turn into a full scale depression possibly worse than that of the 1930s."
It's worth your time to research what Paul says about this bill. I tend to think he is right on and is one of the few who has the courage to try to tell us the truth. I still am completely baffled why in 2008 so many conservatives, including Christian conservatives, wrote him off as a right-wing fringe lunatic. I fear he may end up being the only one who was even close to reality.
Re Ron Paul: Perhaps more like pouring gasoline on a fire! (Which I was stupid enough to do one time!)
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