The GOP is filibustering the Min. Wage Bill - Your help is vital!

[mikelewis]

The GOP has adopted the "formula for tyranny by the minority" and is filibustering the Minimum Wage Bill. The GOP's unbridled greed and favoritism of corporate sponsors is still harming America even though they have lost power and prestige clear across the nation. In spite of the failures of their policy of robbing from the poor and giving to the rich, they are still determined to save the wealthy of this nation from shouldering any tax burden whatsoever. This type of pandering to wealth must end and the Minimum wage must be allowed to pass through Congress.

While I do not support using the Nuclear Option to end the debate on the Minimum Wage issue there are other means of going about affecting the outcome of this important bill. In 2008, a handful of Repuke Senators are going to be up for reelection and with a Democrat Congress, the hope of a crooked election to secure their seats is quickly waning. To get re-elected they're going to need to have at least some poor people who will vote for them.

Republican incumbent races where the Senator voted against the poor

Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
Saxby Chambliss of Georgia
John Cornyn of Texas
Larry Craig of Idaho
Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina
Michael Enzi of Wyoming
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Pat Roberts of Kansas
Jeff Sessions of Alabama
Gordon Smith of Oregon
Ted Stevens of Alaska
John Sununu of New Hampshire

Republican incumbent races where the Senator voted for the poor

Norm Coleman of Minnesota*
Susan Collins of Maine*
John Warner of Virginia*

Here is a list of the votes for and against cloture. The Assholes who voted against the poor in this country are at the bottom of the list and perhaps enough pressure could be applied to a few of them to force a vote. To end the debate we need 60 votes... We have 54 with 2 Dem's "not voting" which should give us 56 votes if they can be counted on to stay with the party and the working poor in America. This means we need 4 Repukes with a conscience or at least an overwhelming desire to get reelected.

Even though Voinovich from Ohio is not up for reelection, he may be willing to change his vote if enough pressure comes bubbling up from the grass roots in support of this Issue. With Cleveland, OH being labeled as the "poorest city in the nation" (next to now New Orleans, thanks in no small part to the GOP) it may look real bad for him in his home state if he chooses to stand with the rich against the millions of poor he helped create over the last few years. I'm sure there may be others on the fence over this issue but we won't be able to get them off the fence unless we can bring pressure on them right away. Call or write to these Puke incumbents and ask them to reconsider their stance against the "Working Poor".

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---54
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Casey (D-PA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Warner (R-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)


NAYs ---43 A.K.A Assholes
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)

Not Voting - 3
Brownback (R-KS)
Carper (D-DE)
Johnson (D-SD)
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00023#position

[Connonym]

1. Just when I think I can't possibly hate those fuckers even more

they go and do something else that proves my capacity for hate is limitless (and oh so valid).

[Beelzebud]

2. I say we drop the nuclear option in their laps, and give them what they wanted last year.

End the filibuster.

They should be careful what they ask for.

[ShortnFiery]

6. Yes! I doubt the Republicans would have hesitated one fleeting moment!

DO IT FOR THE AMERICAN WAGE WORKER! :evilgrin:

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. AMEN!

[mainegreen]

3. Snowe and Collins have sensed the change of wind, but poor Sununu...

I can't imagine he's going to get re-elected. Not with NH's changing (ie Massification) demographics.

[KansDem]

4. Where's the "nuclear option?"

Didn't the GOP use the threat of the "nuclear option" to get the pResident's choices on the Supreme Court?

Didn't we keep our radium dry for something like this?

And what's with the "not voting" crowd (one of which is my senator)?

[Ignacio Upton]

8. The filibuster is only bad when DEMOCRATS use it

:sarcasm:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

9. Nuke option was ONLY for nominations.

Not for legislation.

[Cobalt Violet]

5. Please tell me your making this all up.

I hate them all. :nuke:

[gatorboy]

7. Has any of the news channels mentioned this?

I haven't heard the MSM make a peep.

[AndyA]

10. I called Senator Inhofe. WHAT A HUGE ASSHOLE THIS MAN IS.

Told them I couldn't think of one good reason to vote against the increase in minimum wage. I was told that it was a burden to small business owners. I responded that most of the small business owners I know pay more than minimum wage anyway.

"Well, there you go! Proof that the market is working for the people."

I said that was not true, as many companies would pay employees as little as possible, unless forced by law to pay a living wage.

I told them to add up the cost of a cheap apartment, a cheap car, insurance for that car (which is a requirement), utilities. And tell me how the average American was supposed to do that on minimum wage.

I advised the staffer that Inhofe is out of touch with reality, living on a different planet, and that I would be working to do everything to ensure he isn't reelected again.

I told him Inhofe was an embarrassment to the state of Oklahoma.

[Lerkfish]

11. its ok, The DLC will come along and tell them to keep their powder dry.

and they'll listen, all submissably and timidly, just like the democrats did.

right?




right?




LOL

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. Of course they are! When the Dems do it, it's a bad bad bad

and they threated to "nuke" them. Well, at least they're being honest in their wording this time by using "tyranny"!

[Trekologer]

14. Up or down vote!

Up or down vote! Up or down vote! Everything deserves an up or down vote!

Wash, rinse, repeat. Repeat often. Tell anyone who will listen, up or down vote!