Twelve House Dem's Vote No On FISA As Amended

[VP505]

to exclude Telecom Immunity, perhaps they need to hear from their constituents:

1. Boren
2. Capuano
3. Carney
4. Cooper
5. Filner
6. Hinchey
7. Holden
8. Kuchinich
9. Lampson
10. Schuler
11. Welch
12. McDermott

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll145.xml

[bdamomma]

1. why did Kucinich vote NO?

[bluestateguy]

5. Because he's so liberal that sometimes he votes with the conservatives

No, seriously.

[sybylla]

12. I would guess that he would vote against any FISA expansion

And I think that's a good thing. After the last bill that expanded the FISA provisions expired in February, we reverted to the way things were formerly done - you know, before 9/11 when we still had our civil rights.

He didn't vote against telecom immunity. His vote had nothing to do with telecom immunity. He voted against another expansion of FISA provisions.

[hisownpetard]

2. Kucinich? Why??

[ExtraGriz]

3. DK voted no? wtf?

[fascisthunter]

4. Did Dennis have a Brain Fart or What?

I want him to answer this...

[jaysunb]

6. Kuhcinich ?? Welch ??

What the &^%$$#& ?

[Winterblues]

7. Don't understand the Kucinich and McDermott votes at all

They are about as Liberal as they get..:shrug:

[asdjrocky]

8. I just don't get Denny.

I imagine that someone smarter than myself will come along and explain.

[Gman]

9. Kucinich must have a Republic against him in November

that'll make you do seemingly strange things. DK no doubt got a "pass" on this one as his vote wasn't necessary for the vote to prevail. Had he voted Yes, he would have had commercials run everywhere about how he enables terrorists.

I hope people look and see what a good Congressman sometimes has to do in order to stay being a good Congressman. This vote in no way diminishes DK. It only means he needs to get reelected. That's a good smart vote by DK.

No doubt it's the same with Lampson who's running for reelection to Tom Delay's old seat. The enemy there doesn't need any more ammunition.

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You know what.. it could also be, and probably is that DK was voting against reauthorizing FISA, period. I'll bet that's it.

[Muttocracy]

10. Hinchey (NY) is also very liberal - so maybe there's more to this

Maybe there's something else in the bill they opposed? Some procedural strategy?? :shrug:

[MrCoffee]

11. McDermott and Kucinich...weird

[pleah]

13. Maybe it was in protest to even bringing a FISA bill up at all.

The FISA law that is already in place is all you need. To change the law in any way, shape or form would be stupid. They should have just not done anything on FISA. Waste of taxpayers money going through all of this shit. Godless Warmongering Bastard is just going to veto anyway.

[Breeze54]

14. There had to be something in the bill that irked Kucinich.

:shrug:

He wasn't going along with it anyway.