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Is DCCC chief Steve Israel telling House Dems to vote against Dem budgets?
http://americablog.com/2013/03/dccc-steve-israel-budgets.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americablog+%28AMERICAblog+News%29Another quick one while I work on something longer. Last week the House voted on a number of budgets — the Senate budget bill, the House Progressive “Back to Work” budget, the Congressional Black Caucus budget, and the Paul Ryan budget. All but the Ryan budget failed, of course. But the list of voters within the roll calls is interesting. And studying those, Howie Klein at DownWithTyranny makes a great catch.
His post is well worth a read, but I want to pull out just this piece — Steve Israel, Pelosi’s hand-picked DCCC chair, has been telling freshman and “vulnerable” Democrats in the House to vote with Republicans. Get that? A member of the House Dem leadership is whipping Dems to vote against Dem-proposed bills.
Klein (my emphasis and some reparagraphing):
Wednesday evening, we took a quick look at the House vote on the Progressive Caucus Back To Work Budget. Wednesday the House also voted on the Senate budget. … Every Republican voted against it… and it failed 154-261. The Democratic caucus operation is a near-shambles and no one was leading. …
[But] Many of them– the freshmen and vulnerable members in red-leaning districts, were counseled by Steve Israel, chairman of the DCCC, to vote with the Republicans. He does that kind of thing; it’s a losing strategy that causes low Democratic turnout. It killed the Democrats in 2010… but Israel has learned nothing from the Great Blue Dog Apocalypse.
[But] Many of them– the freshmen and vulnerable members in red-leaning districts, were counseled by Steve Israel, chairman of the DCCC, to vote with the Republicans. He does that kind of thing; it’s a losing strategy that causes low Democratic turnout. It killed the Democrats in 2010… but Israel has learned nothing from the Great Blue Dog Apocalypse.
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