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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 07:10 AM Feb 2016

The Most Corrupt And Most Conservative Democrats In Congress Are All Huge Hillary Sup

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Think of the worst Democrats in Congress-- the ones who vote most frequently for the GOP agenda, who want to help dismantle Dodd Frank's financial consumer protections, who want to gut Obamacare, who back the NRA, who are willing to compromise away Social Security and Medicare benefits, who work hand-in-hand with Wall Street's lobbyists... the Blue Dogs and New Dems and conservative garbage who, for one reason or another, wound up on Team Blue, The DINOs-- they're all stumping for self-proclaimed "progressive" Hillary Clinton.

Let's turn to ProgressivePunch, which tracks every single vote in Congress, and look at the lifetime crucial vote scores. Although they all have "F" grades, these are the Members with the 15 worst scores-- in order of horribleness:

• Gwen Graham (Blue Dog-FL)- 28.57
• Brad Ashford (Blue Dog-NE)- 36.73
• Kyrsten Sinema (Blue Dog-AZ)- 38.05
• Henry Cuellar (Blue Dog-TX)- 39.96
• Collin Peterson (Blue Dog-MN)- 39.98
• Sean Patrick Maloney (New Dem-NY)- 43.90
• Jim Costa (Blue Dog-CA)- 43.93
• Cheri Bustos (Blue Dog-IL)- 47.99
• Raul Ruiz (CA)- 50.79
• Scott Peters (New Dem-CA)- 50.92
• Ann Kirkpatrick (New Dem-AZ)-51.12
• Patrick Murphy (New Dem-FL)- 51.54
• Ami Bera (New Dem-CA)- 51.69
• Filemon Vela (New Dem-TX)-54.77
• Jim Cooper (Blue Dog-TN)- 56.97

Any score less than 70 indicates a virtually worthless Democrat on many issues that are core, values-driven and made contentious by ideological conservatives and reactionaries. The only one of these conservative Democrats who hasn't endorsed Hillary is Arizona conservative Kyrsten Sinema. All the others-- the ones with A+ NRA ratings and the ones who oppose Obamacare and who are undermining Dodd Frank and the EPA-- have endorsed Hillary.
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