Bailout Bill Voting Record

We all here about the votes in Washington but do you really know who voted which way? Recently we had a vote on the Wall Street bailout bill; something that I was against.  You might find it interesting who voted for or against the bill (I know I did).  Below are the results for Texas but you can check out the complete list at the Senate and House website.

Senate overall vote:  Yea - 74         Nay - 25          Not Voted - 1

• Cornyn (R-TX), Yea  
• Hutchison (R-TX), Yea

House overall vote: Yea - 263       Nay - 171

Yea:    Republican – 6         Democrat - 9

• Kevin Brady (R)
• Michael Conaway (R)
• Henry Cuellar (D)
• Chet Edwards (D)
• Charles Gonzalez (D)
• Kay Granger (R)
• Al Green (D)
• Ruben Hinojosa (D)
• Sheila Jackson-Lee (D)
• Eddie Johnson (D)
• Solomon Ortiz (D)
• Silvestre Reyes (D)
• Pete Sessions (R)
• Lamar Smith (R)
• Mac Thornberry (R)

Nay:    Republican – 13       Democrat – 4

• Joe Barton (R)
• Michael Burgess (R)
• John Carter (R)
• John Culberson (R)
• Lloyd Doggett (D)
• Louie Gohmert (R)
• Gene Green (D)
• Ralph Hall (R)
• Jeb Hensarling (R)
• Sam Johnson (R)
• Nicholas Lampson (D)
• Kenny Marchant (R)
• Michael McCaul (R)
• Randy Neugebauer (R)
• Ron Paul (R)
• Ted Poe (R)
• Ciro Rodriguez (D)

Repeatedly in this blog I have urged you to be an educated voter.  While I do care which way you vote, when you vote I think you should be informed as to what your voting for.  Your vote is your decision but make that decision for the right reason.  Now in case you didn't figure it out I normally vote Republican but sometimes I vote outside of the party for various reasons.  This bill is one of those reasons.  I cannot in good conscience vote for someone who voted for this bill.  The bill pushes us closer to the precipice of socialism while I think we should be decreasing government involvement in our life.   We are a free market economy, we tout that philosophy around the world as the best way to be and punish those that disagree with us.  One of the prime tenets of a free market economy is that the value of the market is a direct reflection of the true value of it workers and businesses.  With us bailing out all these businesses we’re telling the world that our plan works “most” of the time but when it doesn't governments should step in.  Is this the message we want to tell the world?  Isn’t this what happens in a socialist society?  A strong government is an indicator of a strong economy but a government can’t create a strong economy, we do (the people).  I disagree with the doom and gloom forecasts that we were warned of.  I think we had some “chicken little” leaders who failed to correctly read the tea-leaves of markets.  Now we’re stuck with even more debt, even more government controls, and even more foreign influence in our country.  We should have let the market do what it was going to do and picked up the pieces when it was over.  That’s what we’ve done before and we were stronger because of it. 

If you agree with me then look at who voted for this socialist regulation and get them out of office.  Our country can recover but we need sound and strong leadership to do it, NOT the cowards who forced this crap onto us.