OFFICIAL! NO VOTE, BONER HAS NO VOTES

[Rosco T.]

Resign you smuck!

[babylonsister]

1. He pulled his own damn proposal!

[Rosco T.]

2. Just like Yertle the Turtle did :)

[freshwest]

9. Bwahaha! Merry Christmas Baggers! Or is this the war on Xmas again? I can't keep up with the lies!

[BainsBane]

3. Lol

I love when a repug falls on his face.

[TDale313]

4. Just got a news alert

From NBC News that they'd canceled the plan b vote.

[graywarrior]

5. Friggin hilarious!

[Recursion]

6. Weakest. Speaker. Ever.

Seriously, I think in US history, this is the weakest the Speaker of the House has ever been. Henry Clay and Sam Rayburn are rolling in their graves.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

12. +1 nt

[heather blossom]

7. Total Humiliation

Boner is humiliated- what a joke of a speaker he is. When will the Republicans realize that they were elected to represent "We the People"? When will they realize that they need to govern responsibly?

[Downwinder]

8. I was hoping he would get one from my critter. Need

to do a replacement in 2014.

[freshwest]

10. Do your best, Downwinder. We need less baggers.

[Downwinder]

11. I could accept a cut in SS if I get it back

with interest in two years.

[freshwest]

13. If the Congress flips in 2014, COLA would return all of it.

Do you have any of these guys in reach there?

Congressional Progressive Caucus.

...Of the 20 standing committees of the House in the 111th Congress, 10 were chaired by members of the CPC. Those chairmen were replaced when the Republicans took control of the House in the 112th Congress...

All members are members of the Democratic Party or caucus with the Democratic Party. There are currently 76 declared Progressives, including 73 voting Representatives, two non-voting Delegates, and one Senator.

House members:

[edit] Arizona

* Ed Pastor (AZ-4, Phoenix)
* Raúl Grijalva (AZ-7, Tucson) - Co-Chair

[edit] California

* Lynn Woolsey (CA-6, Santa Rosa) Retired in 2012
* George Miller (CA-7, Richmond)
* Barbara Lee (CA-9, Oakland)
* Pete Stark (CA-13, Fremont) Defeated in 2012
* Janice Hahn (CA-36, San Pedro)
* Michael Honda (CA-15, San Jose)
* Sam Farr (CA-17, Monterey)
* Xavier Becerra (CA-31, Los Angeles)
* Judy Chu (CA-32, El Monte)
* Karen Bass (CA-33, Baldwin Hills)
* Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34, Los Angeles)
* Maxine Waters (CA-35, Inglewood)
* Laura Richardson (CA-37, Long Beach) Defeated in 2012
* Linda Sánchez (CA-39, Lakewood)
* Bob Filner (CA-51, San Diego)

[edit] Colorado

* Jared Polis (CO-02, Boulder)

[edit] Connecticut

* Rosa DeLauro (CT-3, New Haven)

[edit] Florida

* Corrine Brown (FL-3, Jacksonville)
* Frederica Wilson (FL-17, Miami)

[edit] Georgia

* Hank Johnson (GA-4, Lithonia)
* John Lewis (GA-5, Atlanta)

[edit] Hawaii

* Mazie Hirono (HI-2, Honolulu) Elected to the Senate

[edit] Illinois

* Bobby Rush (IL-1, Chicago)
* Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2, Chicago Heights), resigned his house seat on November 21, 2012
* Luis Gutierrez (IL-4, Chicago)
* Danny Davis (IL-7, Chicago)
* Jan Schakowsky (IL-9, Chicago)

[edit] Indiana

* André Carson (IN-7, Indianapolis)

[edit] Iowa

* Dave Loebsack (IA-2, Cedar Rapids)

[edit] Maine

* Chellie Pingree (ME-1, North Haven)

[edit] Maryland

* Donna Edwards (MD-4, Fort Washington)
* Elijah Cummings (MD-7, Baltimore)

[edit] Massachusetts

* John Olver (MA-1, Amherst) Retired in 2012
* Jim McGovern (MA-3, Worcester)
* Barney Frank (MA-4, Newton) Retired in 2012
* John Tierney (MA-6, Salem)
* Ed Markey (MA-7, Malden)
* Mike Capuano (MA-8, Boston)

[edit] Michigan

* John Conyers (MI-14, Detroit)
* Hansen Clarke (MI-13, Detroit) Defeated in 2012 - primary

[edit] Minnesota

* Keith Ellison (MN-5, Minneapolis) - Co-Chair

[edit] Mississippi

* Bennie Thompson (MS-2, Bolton)

[edit] Missouri

* William Lacy Clay, Jr. (MO-1, St. Louis)
* Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5, Kansas City) - Chairman, Congressional Black Caucus

[edit] New Jersey

* Frank Pallone (NJ-06, Long Branch)
* Rush Holt (NJ-12, Hopewell Township)

[edit] New Mexico

* Ben R. Luján (NM-3, Santa Fe)

[edit] New York

* Jerry Nadler (NY-8, Manhattan)
* Yvette Clarke (NY-11, Brooklyn)
* Nydia Velázquez (NY-12, Brooklyn)
* Carolyn Maloney (NY-14, Manhattan)
* Charles Rangel (NY-15, Harlem)
* José Serrano (NY-16, Bronx)
* Maurice Hinchey (NY-22, Saugerties) Retired in 2012
* Louise Slaughter (NY-28, Rochester)

[edit] North Carolina

* Mel Watt (NC-12, Charlotte)
* Brad Miller (NC-13, Raleigh) Retired in 2012

[edit] Ohio

* Marcy Kaptur (OH-9, Toledo)
* Dennis Kucinich (OH-10, Cleveland) Defeated in 2012 - primary
* Marcia Fudge (OH-11, Warrensville Heights)

[edit] Oregon

* Earl Blumenauer (OR-3, Portland)
* Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1, Beaverton)
* Peter DeFazio (OR-4, Eugene)

[edit] Pennsylvania

* Bob Brady (PA-1, Philadelphia)
* Chaka Fattah (PA-2, Philadelphia)

[edit] Rhode Island

* David Cicilline (RI-1, Providence)

[edit] Tennessee

* Steve Cohen (TN-9, Memphis)

[edit] Texas

* Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18, Houston)
* Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30, Dallas)

[edit] Vermont

* Peter Welch (VT-At Large)

[edit] Virginia

* Jim Moran (VA-8, Alexandria)

[edit] Washington

* Jim McDermott (WA-7, Seattle)

[edit] Wisconsin

* Tammy Baldwin (WI-2, Madison) Elected to the Senate
* Gwen Moore (WI-4, Milwaukee)

[edit] Non-voting

* Donna M. Christensen (Virgin Islands)
* Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia)

Senate members:

* Bernie Sanders (Vermont)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus

[Downwinder]

16. No, I'm in TX-2. The only way to get Hall out is retirement,

die in office, or cut SS.

[freshwest]

17. Sorry man, my condolences. May yet go blue in a few years. The GOP lost their supermajority.

That was a shot heard around the bagger world.

[Sunlei]

14. Because the White house released clear facts to show what a FAIL the Repub. “Plan B” Legislation is

I prefer following this mess at the sourse. Boehner is worse than useless to Americans, So is Cantor. If America did away with their political positions they would not be missed at all. They both should resign.

Congressional Republican “Plan B” Legislation: Cuts Taxes for Millionaires, Fails To Meet The Test Of Balance

read it here http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/12/19/congressional-republican-plan-b-legislation-cuts-taxes-millionaires-fails-meet-test-


long pdf with details http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/congressional_republican_plan_b_analysis.pdf

a bit includes,... Lose about $400 billion in high-income revenue, relative to the Senate-passed middle-class tax cuts bill, with about 70 percent of the lost revenue going to households making more than $1 million: More than 90 percent would go to households with incomes over $500,000.
 Lose another $120 billion in revenue by providing million dollar tax cuts for the 3 in 1,000 wealthiest estates: Plan B makes permanent the current estate tax levels, which provide an average of more than $1 million in tax relief to estates worth more than $7 million, relative to the President’s proposal.
 Raise taxes by an average of $1,000 on 25 million working families with children and students: Plan B does not continue the American Opportunity Tax Credit and improvements to the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit.
 Fail to continue critical tax incentives for business, like the Research & Development credit, energy incentives, and temporary measures like bonus depreciation.
Other Consequences of Moving To Plan B Include
 Leaves in place a sequester that threatens education, research, and our national security.
 Pushes 2 million Americans off their unemployment insurance benefits starting in January. At Christmas time, Plan B would cut off benefits for 2 million workers searching for jobs, something Congress has never done before when unemployment was still 7.7%.
 Cuts reimbursements for doctors seeing Medicare patients by 27 percent......""

[babylonsister]

15. Thank you for these 'fun' facts!!! This needs it's own thread. nt

[MassedPole]

18. Thats really funny. My chest hurts because I laughed so hard.

Something to brighten my day. Sence Im snowed in and cant go anyway due to the blizzard.

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