The No Votes...Here they Are...

doctormatt06

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Saturday November 07, 2009 · 8:46 PM PST

2009/11/07 · 20:46

The Democrats who voted No for Health Care Reform are as follows:

According to House Roll Call 887

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514 votes Show Results

What needs to be done now? Is it...

514 votes Vote Now!

What needs to be done now? Is it...

Time for Primaries?

138 votes

Time to cut of the Progressive ATM?

52 votes

Time to Call these People OUT?

38 votes

Time to work the Senate!!!

214 votes

Time to beat more Republicans!!!

19 votes

Time to give up...

12 votes

Time to relax...

4 votes

Time to CELEBRATE!!!

37 votes

I'm worried about the death panels...seriously...

doctormatt06

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 10:21 AM PDT

2009/08/12 · 10:21

Now I know that that my fellow kossacks have been skeptical of all the right-wing blather about death panels, and scoffing at the ludicrousness of the supposed theory. But alas, I believe they may be right, and I have evidence to further back up this claim. There are death panels and what they have done will shock you.

Take a look at the evidence over the jump:

doctormatt06

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Thursday July 16, 2009 · 8:41 PM PDT

2009/07/16 · 20:41

According to Steven Greenhouse in the New York Times is saying that Moderate Democrats in the Senate have effectively killed the provision for Card Check in the Senate. He says:

The abandonment of card check was another example of the power of moderate Democrats to constrain their party’s more liberal legislative efforts. Though the Democrats have a 60-40 vote advantage in the Senate, and President Obama supports the measure, several moderate Democrats opposed the card-check provision as undemocratic.

In its place, several Senate and labor officials said, the revised bill would require shorter unionization campaigns and faster elections.

While disappointed with the failure of card check, union leaders argued this would still be an important victory because it would give companies less time to press workers to vote against unionizing.

Some business leaders hailed the dropping of card check, while others called the move a partial triumph because the bill still contained provisions they oppose.

doctormatt06

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Friday June 26, 2009 · 4:07 PM PDT

2009/06/26 · 16:07

Barack Obama a few weeks ago said the following:

"There are no neat or easy answers here," Mr. Obama said in a speech in which he pledged to "clean up the mess at Guantanamo."

The president also said opening and continuing the military prison "set back the moral authority that is America's strongest currency in the world."

"I can tell you that the wrong answer is to pretend like this problem will go away if we maintain an unsustainable status quo," Mr. Obama said. "As president, I refuse to allow this problem to fester. Our security interests won't permit it. Our courts won't allow it. And neither should our conscience."

Now according to the Washington Post the President is going to ask his lawyers to draft an executive order to keep them locked up indefinitely. What the hell...

doctormatt06

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Tuesday June 16, 2009 · 2:43 PM PDT

2009/06/16 · 14:43

The Washington Post is now reporting that Republican John Ensign of Nevada had an extramarital affair. Check out the Washington Post Website!!!!Washington Post

THE POLITICO IS REPORTING THAT HE WAS POSSIBLY BLACKMAILED!!!
The Politico

Sen. John Ensign today acknowledged an extramarital affair with a member of his campaign staff, according to several Nevada Republican sources.

Ensign told the Associated Press, "I deeply regret and am very sorry for my actions."

An aide in Ensign's office said the affair took place between December 2007 and August 2008, with a campaign staffer who was married to an employee in Ensign's Senate office. Neither have worked for the senator since May 2008. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity. The aide declined to comment on Ensign's political future.

(h/t Kitty)

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How many Republican Senators have had affairs?

1596 votes Vote Now!

How many Republican Senators have had affairs?

1-2

12 votes

3-5

21 votes

6-10

64 votes

11-15

75 votes

16-24

103 votes

25-30

61 votes

30-35

45 votes

36-40

170 votes

well..you're just counting the current crop, overall..too many to count

918 votes

don't be so jaded

127 votes

Tear the f****r down...

doctormatt06

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Tuesday May 12, 2009 · 6:41 PM PDT

2009/05/12 · 18:41

Below is a conversation between a torn liberal's brain and his heart. Barack Obama has led this nation for barely over 2 months, and yet already I can feel inside me the pull of my heart strings filled with rage, sadness, worry, and increasing anger fighting against my brain that is pressing logic, patience and understanding, with the way things are going. Below is a metaphor of the conflict felt within, probably, many liberals, who have become disenchanted with the system's solutions to the problems facing us.

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52 votes Show Results

I relate more to

52 votes Vote Now!

I relate more to

Heart

14 votes

Brain

9 votes

A combination of both

25 votes

Neither

4 votes

The New Republican Mascot!!!!!!!!

doctormatt06

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Tuesday April 14, 2009 · 7:54 PM PDT

2009/04/14 · 19:54

In shocking news to Republican Party faithful, the Republican party has decided that after a century-plus of the Elephant as the symbol of their party, they found it not to represent the zeal and patriotism required to represent a party of their stature, so they secretly convened after their loss in November to reform the party's image. The party spent a long time debating between a plethora of different new mascots...

From Sam the Eagle

to McGruff the Crime Dog

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115 votes Show Results

The Real Republican Mascot?

115 votes Vote Now!

The Real Republican Mascot?

The elephant

3 votes

The dead elephant

15 votes

Teabags Mcgee

35 votes

Sam the Eagle

5 votes

Pump-Action Jesus

28 votes

Monopoly Man

18 votes

Something Else...write below...

11 votes

Virginia Republicans rip themselves to pieces

doctormatt06

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Saturday April 04, 2009 · 2:17 PM PDT

2009/04/04 · 14:17

Thank god for Republicans, sometimes they're the best players on TEAM Democrat. Today, the Republican Party of Virginia decided to remove their Chairman. Not only did they remove him, but they removed him in a way that there was only one vote needed to have kept him in office. Not only did they remove him, but they disqualified one of the people who would have voted for him on the committee, and thus, made Chairman Frederick's ousting look all the more suspicious. Not only did they kick him out, but they pissed off all of his hard-core conservative followers who make up the backbone of the volunteers and money-ed interests that help keep the Republican Party here going. Not only that! They also could get sued by this said Chairman and have him run again for the position and win! Thank you Virginia Republican Party, you guys suck so bad, you actually make us smell better.

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166 votes Show Results

The Worst State Republican Party

166 votes Vote Now!

The Worst State Republican Party

Texas

38 votes

California

17 votes

Tennessee

14 votes

Virginia

5 votes

Florida

7 votes

Mississippi

4 votes

Georgia

10 votes

Michigan

3 votes

Alaska

12 votes

Idaho

1 vote

My state (fill in underneath)

9 votes

Hey..I'm a Republican, they aren't ALL bad.

1 vote

Ok ok...I'm a Republican and my state party sucks

1 vote

The Mental State of Glenn Beck's mind

44 votes

Compromise....A sometimes impossible thing

doctormatt06

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Saturday February 28, 2009 · 9:38 PM PST

2009/02/28 · 21:38

After arguing with another poster here at the Dkos on gun rights and gun control the other week, a thought bubbled up from the increasingly acerbic way the debate went. Compromise is a hard thing! Finding common ground on issues is difficult. And that's with someone who agrees with a lot of what we who are Dkos regulars believe. Even with our supposed 'Left Wing' group, there is a lot of heterogeneity of beliefs about different issues throughout the community. There are issues we probably all mostly agree about 90 to 95%. Global Warming is real. The Iraq War was begun on false pretensions and the Bush Administration probably lied about some of their 'facts' about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction. Tax Cuts are not the miracle panacea of Job Creation. Every other Republican Congressman has a strange sexual fetish...well ok ok...that's just a personal belief. I digress...I was going to talk about compromise.

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21 votes Show Results

Compromise is

21 votes Vote Now!

Compromise is

usually a good thing

2 votes

usually a bad thing

1 vote

usually good for one party involved

0 votes

usually bad for one party involved

0 votes

awful

1 vote

a way for the Democrats and Republicans to get together and fuck over America

5 votes

a way for people with no backbone to slither away

2 votes

useful for those who prefer not to make tough decisions

2 votes

the only way things get done

4 votes

other

4 votes

Virginia Governor Race ... Fairfax Special Election Edition!!! BULOVA WINS!

doctormatt06

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Tuesday February 03, 2009 · 4:15 PM PST

2009/02/03 · 16:15

BULOVA WINS!!!!

Today was the special election to appoint our new Fairfax County Supervisor (an important position as both ex-congressman Tom Davis, and new congressman Gerry Connolly held the position previously) that will help show how the Republicans are doing in pushing turnout here in Northern Virginia, and will be a good gauge of each parties interest for the fall elections.

The candidates
Sharon Bulova - Democrat
Pat Herrity - Republican
Christopher DeCarlo - Independent
Carey Campbell -Independent Green (Kind of like a Republican for Rail)

For more background information, here is some info from the Washington Post with backgrounds and information about each candidate.

doctormatt06

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Monday December 22, 2008 · 3:37 PM PST

2008/12/22 · 15:37

After reading this whole Reverend Warren fiasco, I just have one question for President-Elect Obama. Why is Reverend Wright too controversial, but Reverend Warren is fine and dandy. I'm going to put there so-called controversial quotes out there for everyone to read, and you tell me, what makes Warren so much less controversial then Reverend Wright.

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Who is more controversial?

33 votes Vote Now!

Who is more controversial?

Reverend Wright

1 vote

Reverend Warren

6 votes

Both, but more Wright than Warren

4 votes

Both, but more Warren than Wright

1 vote

Both, equally

3 votes

Neither

1 vote

Who the fuck cares...

10 votes

Fuck Rick Warren

7 votes

Is Virginia now a Mid-Atlantic State...I think so!

doctormatt06

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 5:41 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 17:41

The old adage goes that Pennsylvania has Philadelphia on one side, Pittsburgh on the other and Alabama down the middle. I think we can now say the same about Virginia. Virginia has Northern Virginia in the North, the Richmond-Norfolk Corridor in the South, and the rest is Alabama. We have changed so much in the 8-10 years I have gotten more interested in politics. We have more transplants from all over the country coming to our Universities and settling. Northern Virginia is receiving numerous emigrants from other states. I think just looking at the political make-up of our state, we've become more Delaware and less Georgia.

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Virginia is a _____________ state.

120 votes Vote Now!

Virginia is a _____________ state.

Mid-Atlantic

54 votes

Southern

20 votes

Eastern Seabord

12 votes

Border

8 votes

(n) escaped from the Confederacy

6 votes

none of the above (write your own)

1 vote

KICK ASS

19 votes

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The No Votes...Here they Are...

I'm worried about the death panels...seriously...

Card Check Dead in the Senate?

Locking Them Up For Life...

Breaking News...John Ensign announces affair...blackmail!!!!

Tear the f****r down...

The New Republican Mascot!!!!!!!!

Virginia Republicans rip themselves to pieces

Compromise....A sometimes impossible thing

Virginia Governor Race ... Fairfax Special Election Edition!!! BULOVA WINS!

The tale of of two W's (and not the president)

Is Virginia now a Mid-Atlantic State...I think so!