I can look out my window and see into Dana Rohrabacher's district.  It snakes through a tiny strip along the shore in Long Beach and San Pedro, connecting Orange County with the Palor Verdes Penninsula.  Rohrabacher's an old friend of the Mujahadeen, had a famous picture of himself with them that he was very proud of.  I think of the district as a little piece of the old South Africa right here in the heart of sunny Southern California.  This vote was no surprise at all.

390+33 = 423.  Who "missed out"?  I wonder how many of the abstainers were Republicans who didn't want to go on record one way or the other...

Scott Garrett is no surprise at all.  He's the worst wingnut (by voting record) in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.  This is a man whose staff is rude to people in wheelchairs who get on the phone.  Damn nuisances wanting a handout!  Like the transportation services guaranteed under the Disabilities Act.  Like wanting to work.  That sort of nonsense.

Foxx and McHenry are two North Carolina freahmen who instantly sank to the bottom five in the House in their progressive punch scores.  McHenry particularly gets my goat.  He's a lot snot-nosed kid who is considered "courageous" and climbed the leadership tree by deliberately and frequently voting against his constituents.  This dweeb has got to go.  Out of the 27 GOP freshmen, McHenry (ant-credit union, pro-CAFTA) is far and away the most dangerous.  His biographty just drips with the kind of all-out ambition and entitlement that belongs in the 17th century and not in NC.  

Foxx looks about 70 with a thin face, white hair and thick glasses.  She comes across not like NC's own Aunt Bea (a kindly woman above all) but like that third grade teacher that terrorized the kiddies.

FWIW, Gingrey and Garrett can be taken out this year.  Maybe neither is an automatic out but it's posssible.  Karma and justice say this would be a welcome change.

Hefley also voted against a congressional proclamation for FDR. One of 5.

How friggin' backwards is that?

Oh, and he hasn't said shit about our troops' lack of body armor in Iraq. He's on the Armed Services Committee and Fort Carson is here - home of the 3rd ACR.

I'm glad he's gone. Help out his replacement if you can: Jay Fawcett.

To my embarrassment, one of these clowns is from "my state" Maryland.  I put "my state" in quotations because Maryland is really eight states - Baltimore, Baltimore's suburbs, Montgomery County, PG County, Southern MD, Eastern Shore and Western Maryland.  Western Maryland is essentially West Virginia but paying taxes to Annapolis, and that is Bartlett's district.

Bartlett is OLD and he is facing a Democratic veteran opponent, Andrew Duck.  If you would like to send Duck some love money, you can do so here.

Thank God there were no Dems on that list. I'm dashing off to send Andrew Dusk some money vis Senator Stevens' tubes.

We know what is present. Others have discussed Bartlett and Garrett and we shouln't miss the fine California lineup of: Campbell, Doolittle, Herger, MIller, Rohrabacher & Royce (18% of the total!) but then again the depths of wingnuttery in the California Republican Party have never been plumbed. The La Brea Tar pits come to mind with their combination of depth, darkness and generally stickness.

But what is missing? Not a single name from the State of Florida or from Mississippi (or from Virginia, though I find that less surprising).

I doubt that the Republican Parties of either Florida or Mississippi have broken out with guilt here, Jeb in particular has shown his contempt for the Voting Rights Act with actions. Was this just a coincidence or did Barbour and Jeb just get the word out that voting 'no' would be considered an act hostile to their chances to move up?