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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:20 PM
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Ray LaHood by the numbers (it ain't pretty)
ADA: 25% (repuke average: 16%)
NARAL: 0% ("Mr. Blutarsky. Zero point zero.")

Thanks for nothing (literally), Barack!
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:21 PM
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1. But he won't have anything to do with those matters from now on
On the other hand, I've seen some conflicting reports around here about his stance on public transportation, which obviously he will have an impact on. I'd like to learn more about that when I get done with schoolwork.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:24 PM
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6. Well, not with abortion rights
but ADA (Americans for Democratic Action) covers a wide range of issues.

Besides, he's in the Cabinet. Cabinet members generally have the President's ear, unless their name is "Powell" and the pResident is a petulant little weasel named "Bush**".
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:21 PM
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2. Uhm, are you touched?
Edited on Wed Dec-17-08 09:22 PM by Drunken Irishman
What the hell does abortion have to do with transportation?

If you want to slam LaHood, do so on his transit record, not ratings dealing with something he will have zero influence over.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:27 PM
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10. It has to do with what kind of repuke Obama is reaching out to
hardly a moderate, as I had forlornly hoped, but a real, live right-wing anti-choicer.

I only put NARAL in there because I can't recall offhand who else besides them and ADA publishes Congressional ratings.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:28 PM
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11. Then why put it at all?
You and I both know LaHood will have no influence on Obama's abortion stance.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:30 PM
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12. It's one measure of just how far right he is
to use a transportation analogy, off the side of the road, on the shoulder.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:32 PM
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13. Find something about transporation and use that.
Edited on Wed Dec-17-08 09:33 PM by Drunken Irishman
Abortion is not a transportation issue.

It doesn't matter if he's conservative on that issue, there are many Democrats who are, but other than, fairly liberal. If you feel his stances on transportation issues are a bit too conservative, then by all means, attack there. But to me, abortion just doesn't seem like something to harp on.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:39 PM
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19. Okay. Let's turn this around.
Suppose Bush** (or more likely, the *elected* Bush) had appointed an out-front liberal/progressive Dem, perhaps a CBC member, rather than Norm Mineta (the unsung hero of 9/11, by the way), to this same post.

For starters, Bill-O and Insannity alone would have emitted enough hot air to triple the rate of global climate change. Speaking of which, how green is LaHood? Would he support alternative fuels (other than corn ethanol, pretty much a given for an Illinois rep)?
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:52 PM
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24. That's them.
I'm not going to freak out every time Obama appoints someone who is more conservative than I am.

The reason Bush failed was because he stacked his cabinet with far-right ideologues.
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hay rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:36 PM
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15. Project Vote Smart.
Here's the link to La Hood's interest group ratings: http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=21699
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:45 PM
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23. Excellent resource.
Mahalo (thank you), hay (and nickinSTL, below). I was blissfully unaware of that until now. :dunce:

Doesn't really tell us much, since there haven't been very many close votes on transportation issues for a while, save for the auto industry loan (please don't call it a "bailout"). It does tell us that LaHood isn't really among the die-hard Groucho Marxist ("Whatever it is, I'm against it!") wing of the repuke party, for which I am grateful (though I'd still have preferred a true moderate).
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gravity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:22 PM
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3. So what does this have to do with transportation?
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 11:00 PM
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28. well, in the past he didn't like high speed rail
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7993412
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:22 PM
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4. Ray LaHood? For what? n/t
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:23 PM
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5. I honestly don't care what the Transportation Secretary's view on abortion is.
:shrug:

(ADA: Americans With Disabilities Act? American Dental Association? What?)
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bread_and_roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:25 PM
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7. And I guess Americans with disabilities don't need transportation? (n/t)
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:35 PM
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14. I was asking for clarification on what "ADA" was.
I was withholding judgment on that until I knew more.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:25 PM
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8. ADA: Americans for Democratic Action
the most reliable source of overall ratings of Congresscritters.

http://www.adaction.org
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:37 PM
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18. Thank you.
I'll look and see whether their metrics include issues relevant to transportation.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:26 PM
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9. Anti-dentite scum!
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:37 PM
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16. you want a good look at how interest groups rate LaHood...
check out the Interest Group Ratings for him on Project Vote Smart:
http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=21699

Also has his voting record:
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=21699

and his votes on transportation issues:
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=21699&type=category&category=64&go.x=13&go.y=21
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:37 PM
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17. One good thing: he can't continue voting like that anymore.
Although, I don't like how that will translate to transportation.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:41 PM
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20. Then it's really good to get him the hell out of the lege
and into a job where he can't do any more damage to women, especially.

Good going, Obama!
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:41 PM
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21. OH MY GOD HE'S GOING TO PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORT AMTRAK.
This is seriously the stupidest fucking line of discussion I have seen here in a very, very long time.
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Kceres Donating Member (839 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:55 PM
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25. Some of us, myself included, are just a little sensitive right now when it comes to abortion rights.
I don't blame anyone for being touchy. We all need to stay vigilant on choice.
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:56 PM
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26. Yes, I'm sure he's going to ban abortions on buses.
This is ridiculous in the extreme.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 09:44 PM
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22. Department of Transportation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Transportation

The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or just DOT) is a federal Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with transportation. It was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966 and began operation on April 1, 1967. It is administered by the United States Secretary of Transportation.

Its mission is to "Serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future."
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 10:29 PM
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27. I think the o.p.'s point is, WHY did Shrub steal an election and NOT "govern from the middle" YET
OUR dude actually WINS an election and is gathering all these people that he supposedly does NOT have to "reach out to".


I know I'll be corrected.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 12:03 AM
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29. What does abortion have to do with transportation?
:eyes:
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