Congress passed a symbolic resolution on Tuesday to condemn socialism — a move that saw eight Democrats cross the aisle to back the GOP on the measure.
The vote, which has no actual effect on public policy, was swiftly mocked by observers on social media.
“Voting to condemn an economic system that doesn’t exist in our country, to protect the one which we live under that exploits the working class to benefit the obscenely wealthy,” wrote Melanie D’Arrigo, executive director of Campaign for New York Health. “This was Congress’ priority as 60% of Americans struggle to afford food, housing and healthcare. Embarrassing.”
Here are the 8 Democrats who voted in favor of the resolution:
Kathy Castor (FL)
Henry Cuellar (TX)
Don Davis (NC)
Jared Golden (ME)
Vicente Gonzalez Jr. (TX)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
Darren Soto (FL)
Gabe Vasquez (NM)
Fucking Marie Glusenkamp Perez smh. She’s in a difficult district, but there’s no excuse for some of her votes while in office here.
I swear she’s in every “Democrat crossed the aisle” post. I can’t even write to her because I’m not in her district, even though I had her on my ballot the year she got in.
She’s better than a Republican in that spot in that she votes with her party sometimes instead of never. It’s hard though because I think some of her votes have really betrayed those that voted for her as well.
Cuellar almost lost his primary to an actual progressive — in Texas! This is why it’s important to vote in your local primaries.
In fact, he was far behind Jessica Cisneros until Pelosi, Clyburn, and other DNC leadership bigwigs flew in to campaign for him.
He also illegally took foreign money for his campaigns. He had a few peons plea guilty over it.
I honestly wish out of state influences weren’t allowed to assist in state level races, same for local. If they do interfere they should be tazed on their crotch and then dragged to a shooting range for a live fire exercise, from president to county officials they should all be subject.
Forget out od state. He took money from Azerbaijan.
Oh so what your saying is we should get a member of the Armenian Diaspora to “play” with him gotcha.
“Almost” only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Almost as in “was losing soundly until Pelosi, Clyburn, and other DNC leadership bigwigs flew in from other states to campaign for him”.
If not for their blatant abuse of influence interference specifically to retain the last anti choice racist Dem left in Congress, we’d have had the excellent Jessica Cisneros in stead, no doubt about it.
My point is that essentially ALL elections these days have blatant abuse. So saying “well if it wasn’t for the blatant abuse…” is pointless because it’s pretty much guaranteed to be present. It doesn’t really matter how close or popular someone gets because the powers that be have their thumb on the scale.
Not really. If someone wins with 51% of the vote, they normally look to the other side for policy. If they win with 90% of the vote they don’t care about the other side.
Jared Golden isn’t a Democrat, he’s a good ole boy that ran a conservative campaign in a red district and continues to act accordingly.
WA surprises me. From out in the sticks maybe?
FL, TX, no surprise there.
The closer you get to Idaho the more republican the state gets🤢
The 3rd district is in SW Washington state, just across the river from Portland Oregon. Quite a ways to Idaho.
The DINO-est of DINOs
I wish
Unless there is a single primary still open I sincerely don’t give a fuck.