On 12/17/10, the day after supporting Democrat Obama's destruction of Social Security and continuation of tax cuts for the rich, the US Congress again joined Democrat Obama in attacking the workingclass by voting 341-48 for Obama's 5 Billion war bill without debate, all to make the rich richer.
On 12/17/10, the day after supporting Democrat Obama's destruction of Social Security and continuation of tax cuts for the rich, the US Congress again joined Democrat Obama in attacking the workingclass by voting 341-48 for Obama's 5 Billion war bill without debate, all to make the rich richer.
We cannot have guns and butter and funding blood for oil wars guarantees cuts in social services for the workingclass. The other excuse for cuts sure to come in 2011 is that there will be no money to pay for our needs, thanks to Obama's support of Bush's tax cuts for the rich and his destruction of Social Security. The Social Security tax will not be restored when it expires in a year as it will be election time and no politician expects to get re-elected by raising taxes.
The roll call vote, Roll Call 650, on HR 6523, may be found at
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll650.xml
187 Democrats and 154 Republicans voted for war. San Francisco's rep, Democrat Pelosi, a Democrat, does not have to vote as she is the Speaker, but she is always pro-war and supports this bill, as she supported the destruction of Social Security of 12/16/10. The No votes were as follows:
Baldwin
Blumenauer
Campbell
Capuano
Chu
Clarke
Cohen
Conyers
DeFazio
Duncan
Ehlers
Ellison
Eshoo
Farr
Filner
Flake
Fudge
Garamendi
Hall (NY)
Honda
Jackson (IL)
Johnson (IL)
Kagen
Kucinich
Lee (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lofgren, Zoe
Matsui
Michaud
Miller, George
Moore (WI)
Nadler (NY)
Olver
Paul
Payne
Pingree (ME)
Serrano
Slaughter
Stark
Thompson (CA)
Tierney
Towns
Velázquez
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Woolsey
The non-voters, an inexcusable position as these people are elected and paid to vote, were:
Baird
Barrett (SC)
Barton (TX)
Berry
Boyd
Brady (PA)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Cardoza
Carney
Davis (AL)
Davis (TN)
DeGette
Delahunt
Djou
Fallin
Gallegly
Granger
Grayson
Griffith
Hinojosa
Hodes
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kilpatrick (MI)
Marchant
McCarthy (NY)
McMorris Rodgers
Meek (FL)
Miller, Gary
Moran (KS)
Napolitano
Ortiz
Quigley
Radanovich
Reyes
Salazar
Smith (NJ)
Speier
Stupak
Wamp
Waters
Young (FL)
The Democratic Party is finally finished. You have no excuse for voting for Obama again in 2012. If you want things to get better, you have to vote socialist or Green. See:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
and
http://www.cagreens.org/
clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll650.xml
Original: 341-48 for Obama's $725 Billion War Bill Without Debate