Friday, June 20, 2008

Roll Over And Beg Award: Two Thirds Of The House Of Representatives

Image credit: National Archives

This is the Constitution. The House took a giant dump on it today. When the Senate gets through with it next week, it really will be just a goddamned piece of paper.

These people voted to destroy our country. There's really no other way to put it. To "protect" us from some religious fanatics who live in caves, these representatives voted to amend FISA in a way that essentially guts it. You now have no right of privacy from the government. Keep that in mind the next time you do some online banking.



For their complete and utter fecklessness, not to mention their cowardice, these lowest forms of the human species deserve their very own Beggies. Never before has such a large group of people been awarded this dishonor, and few have deserved it more. Except maybe the Senate, who may soon be repeat winners.

From the roll call, where "Yea" means "Yes, I'm pissing my pants because a few nuts think America is Satan", and "Nay" means "No, I remember the last time you people wanted me to give up my rights, and it wasn't worth it then, either":

Ackerman
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Arcuri
Baca
Bachmann
Bachus
Baird
Barrett (SC)
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bean
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Boustany
Boyd (FL)
Boyda (KS)
Brady (TX)
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Buyer
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carney
Carter
Castle
Castor
Cazayoux
Chabot
Chandler
Childers
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Cooper
Costa
Cramer
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cubin
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (AL)
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Lincoln
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Donnelly
Doolittle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Edwards (TX)
Ehlers
Ellsworth
Emanuel
Emerson
Engel
English (PA)
Etheridge
Everett
Fallin
Feeney
Ferguson
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fossella
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gillibrand
Gingrey
Goode
Goodlatte
Gordon
Granger
Graves
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Gutierrez
Hall (TX)
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Inglis (SC)
Issa
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
Kanjorski
Keller
Kildee
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Klein (FL)
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kuhl (NY)
LaHood
Lamborn
Lampson
Langevin
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lowey
Lucas
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Mahoney (FL)
Manzullo
Marchant
Marshall
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McCrery
McHenry
McHugh
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mitchell
Moore (KS)
Moran (KS)
Murphy, Patrick
Murphy, Tim
Murtha
Musgrave
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
Ortiz
Pearce
Pelosi
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson (MN)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (GA)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Regula
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reyes
Richardson
Rodriguez
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Royce
Ruppersberger
Ryan (WI)
Salazar
Sali
Saxton
Scalise
Schiff
Schmidt
Scott (GA)
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sestak
Shadegg
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Skelton
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Souder
Space
Spratt
Stearns
Stupak
Sullivan
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor
Terry
Thompson (MS)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Turner
Udall (CO)
Upton
Walberg
Walden (OR)
Walsh (NY)
Wamp
Weldon (FL)
Westmoreland
Whitfield (KY)
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (OH)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman (VA)
Wolf
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

I'm not going to bother with first names. The people who did this don't deserve that much consideration. They aren't worth the oxygen they consume.

What they deserve is their just reward, a dog biscuit, procurement of and payment for which is the responsibility of the awardees. Enjoy your biscuits ladies and gentlemen. I'm sure it must be hard work destroying a country as big as this one.

UPDATE: I'd like to thank whoever visited from the House this afternoon. Always nice to see our government paying attention to us citizens.


5 comments:

Dana Hunter said...

Nice. If I wasn't saving my money to donate to the PAC that's going to use Steny Hoyer's guts for garters, I'd have bought the biscuits, tied them with a little bow, and mailed them with a copy of this post to each Yea vote myself.

Fucking spineless cowards. They definitely earned their Beggie.

Cujo359 said...

If you'd done that, they'd have probably assumed it was an attempted bribe. I don't think you could count on this article clueing them in, either. Some may not even realize they use oxygen.

Dana Hunter said...

Well, after today, we certainly know they aren't reality-based.

One Fly said...

One repug crossed over just like always. Mine whored himself out as usual.These people do whatever they want because they can. Our side has won squat in almost 8 years. There is more going on here than meets the eye.

Cujo359 said...

Could be, One Fly, but I think that all you need to remember for this to make sense is that these people are the economic elite of this country, and they're all together there in their own little community. The rest of the country might as well be on another planet.

Isolated populations can quickly develop the own habits, beliefs, customs, etc. I've noticed it in the people I work with who were in the Army. Even large corporations have their little cultural eccentricities. I think that's part of what goes on in DC.