{"id":6046,"date":"2009-11-08T10:24:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T15:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:32:32","slug":"71-lone-voices-of-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6046","title":{"rendered":"39 Lone Voices Of Sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NYTimes runs a handy graphic <\/a>on the 39 Democrats who overcame their party’s collective insanity and voted for a free future, good healthcare, and a viable economy.<\/p>\n

It’s illuminating – all but five of them came from districts that either McCain won, or that had voted Republican up until 2008.,\u00a0 Tellingly, six of the last were from former Republican districts and <\/em>won their seats by less than five points – in several cases, by less than a point.\u00a0 Tuesday’s election results had to have had an\u00a0extra impact there.<\/p>\n

Many, like Collin Peterson, represent solidly\u00a0Republican\u00a0areas, and are as safe as can be (Peterson won his last race by 45 points).\u00a0 Others, like Dennis Kucinich, apparently were angered by the fact the bill doesn’t give full benefits to plants.<\/p>\n

All but 14 are classed as “Blue Dogs”.<\/p>\n

Remember – this is a 39 vote swing in a chamber with a 75 vote Democrat majority.\u00a0 Passing Pelosicare should have been as simple as counting the votes.<\/p>\n

Why the swing?\u00a0 Why did Nancy Pelosi come five votes from failing?<\/p>\n

Because of you<\/em>.\u00a0 You turned out at town halls and tea parties. You endured the insults and the mockery of the misbegotten “elites”.\u00a0 You flipped a big group bird at the “conventional wisdom”.\u00a0 And you almost pulled off the impossible – turning a near-supermajority against itself.<\/p>\n

Don’t think the Senate – where we need two votes – is paying attention?<\/p>\n

Cross-posted in The Greenroom<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NYTimes runs a handy graphic on the 39 Democrats who overcame their party’s collective insanity and voted for a free future, good healthcare, and a viable economy. It’s illuminating – all but five of them came from districts that either McCain won, or that had voted Republican up until 2008.,\u00a0 Tellingly, six of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,66],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-health-care","tag-mn-cd7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23859,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions\/23859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}