House passes tax cuts 277 -148

[ProSense]

Roll call

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Maine Reps both voted no.

[jefferson_dem]

2. It will be fun watching Pence run for POTUS on the "no tax cuts" platform.

:popcorn:

Did the teaparty splinter before our eyes?

[bluestateguy]

3. KUCINICH VOTED FOR IT

That's a shock, and that would seem to make it very hard for him to primary Obama, IF that's what he wanted to do, and it seems he does not.

[jefferson_dem]

4. Korporatist Kooch!

I knew it.

[RBInMaine]

12. So now Dennis Kucinich is a "Republican" too? Crazy statement.

[young but wise]

21. +1

[JamesA1102]

5. He cares about people

not about winning political fights.

[Cleita]

6. Dennis would not primary a sitting Democratic

President. So don't even think about him in 2012.

[provis99]

7. maybe a UFO got in his way when he was voting.

[Union Scribe]

9. So are you helping the GOP win by trashing a Dem

or any of the other things Obama's critics are accused of doing/being, or is attacking any Dem but Obama considered "pragmatic" here?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. As Did Patrick Kennedy

Gives some indication of how Ted Kennedy might have voted although I wouldn't say it's a definitive indicator.

[Freddie Stubbs]

14. He's got a lot to worry about these days:

Why Dennis Kucinich Has a Target on His Back

With redistricting looming, the Ohio congressman’s plight shows how the GOP will be able to make 2012 more difficult for Democrats across the country.


From 1998 to 2008, longtime Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich won each of his reelection campaigns by at least 49,000 votes. Even in the Democratic bloodbath that was the 2010 midterms, the former mayor of Cleveland and presidential candidate carried his district in northeast Ohio by a 16,000-vote margin, more than 8 percent. So why should he be worried about 2012?

Because it’s redistricting season again, the time when legislators redraw district boundaries based on new census data, and Republicans in Ohio are holding the pen. The Ohio GOP won the governor’s seat and took over the state legislature in the midterms, part of a nationwide statehouse surge that has placed Republicans in charge of redrawing congressional-district lines in 17 states, which account for a full 193 out of 435 seats in the House of Representatives, including all the seats from the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Come 2011, the GOP will control more state legislatures than at any time since 1928. Democrats, by contrast, have maintained control of the redistricting process in six states and will have sole say over 44 districts (that will rise to seven states and 72 districts if Democrats end up holding the New York state Senate).

Is all that a prescription for Republican dominance until the next round of redistricting in 2020? Not quite. District borders are only part of the election equation. “You still have to have good candidates good campaigns,” says Tim Storey, senior fellow at the National Conference of State Legislatures. But redistricting can give certain candidates a “head start,” as Storey puts it. And the quagmire Kucinich is facing illustrates how the GOP will be able to make life more difficult for Democrats across the country.

more: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/15/redistricting-could-spell-trouble-for-democrats.html

[Kingofalldems]

20. Yeah you are right, republicans hate Dennis

In fact they hate all Democrats, and are happy to trumpet any bad news they can. :shrug:

[WI_DEM]

16. DK has been very helpful to the president, he was never going to primary him

even if some here wanted him to do so. He provided crucial support for HCR and now he voted for this, admittedly, tough tax cut package.

[ProudDad]

8. Too late...he has...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x567211

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[lunatica]

13. My Congresswoman, Barbara Lee voted Nay

She's consistently progressive.

[ProSense]

15. Ron "end the deficit" Paul voted for it. n/t

[WI_DEM]

17. So as many Dems as Reps voted for it.

[Freddie Stubbs]

22. And a majority of the Democratic Caucus supported it

[rucky]

18. We paid the ransom.

And tipped the driver.

[Jefferson23]

19. Sad state of affairs. n/t