86 + 19/3 Primary Challenges to consider
I've been mulling the central theis of Brian Wolff's note of the 24th, that "We canceled the President's blank check in Iraq." He's the DCCC's Executive Director, so its his job to make lemonade out of lemons.
All I could think about, when not gawking in amazement at the cliff houses of the Anasazi, or wondering why all the circa 1300 AD indians in the NPS dioramas were nude or nearly nude when the repetoire of cultigens included cotton, presumably for purposes other than the manufacture of Q-Tips, and the Spanish at Contact described the Pueblo peoples as "well dressed", and between yucca fibers, rabbit skin and juniper bark, one would have to be wicked disinterested in warmth, softness or sun protection to fail to invent sandals and overalls was ... its another 100 billion dollars wasted.
Its enough to pay 3,891,504.8449 GS-5 step-one saleries, though not enough to cover the full cost of benefits or the cost of their tools and vehicles, but its a hell of a reforestation labor force or a restored Civilian Conservation Corps.
Its 25 times the amount for drought relief, and its absolutely, utterly wasted.
So here they are. In the House:
ALABAMA: Davis
ARIZONA: Grijalva, Pastor
ARKANSAS: Berry, Ross, Snyder
CALIFORNIA: Baca, Cardoza, Costa, Davis
COLORADO: Salazar, Udall
FLORIDA: Boyd, Mahoney, Meek, Wasserman Schultz
GEORGIA: Barrow, Bishop, Marshall, Scott
ILLINOIS: Bean, Emanuel, Lipinski
INDIANA: Donnelly, Ellsworth, Hill, Visclosky
IOWA: Boswell
KANSAS: Boyda, Moore
KENTUCKY: Chandler
LOUISIANA: Melancon
MARYLAND: Hoyer, Ruppersberger
MICHIGAN: Dingell, Kildee, Levin, Stupak
MINNESOTA: Peterson, Walz
MISSISSIPPI: Taylor, Thompson
MISSOURI: Skelton
NEVADA: Berkley
NEW JERSEY: Andrews
NEW YORK: Gillibrand
NORTH CAROLINA: Butterfield, Etheridge, McIntyre
NORTH DAKOTA: Pomeroy
OHIO: Space, Wilson
OKLAHOMA: Boren
PENNSYLVANIA: Carney, Holden, Kanjorski, Murtha, Schwartz, Sestak
SOUTH CAROLINA: Clyburn, Spratt
SOUTH DAKOTA: Herseth
TENNESSEE: Cooper, Davis, Gordon, Tanner
TEXAS: Cuellar, Edwards, Gonzalez, Green (Gene), Hinojosa, Lampson, Ortiz, Reyes, Rodriguez
UTAH: Matheson
VIRGINIA: Boucher
WASHINGTON: Baird, Dicks, Larsen
WEST VIRGINIA: Mollohan, Rahall
WISCONSIN: Kagen, Kind
In the Senate:
ARKANSAS: Lincoln '10, Pryor '08
COLORADO: Salazar '10
DELEWARE: Carper '12
FLORIDA: Nelson '12
INDIANA: Bayh '10
LOUISIANA: Landrieu '08
MICHIGAN: Levin '08
MONTANA: Baucus '08, Tester '12
MISSOURI: McCaskill '10
NEBRASKA: Nelson '12
NEW MEXICO: Bingaman '12
NORTH DAKOTA: Conrad '12, Dorgan '10
PENNSYLVANIA: Casey '12
RHODE ISLAND: Reed '08
VIRGINIA: Webb '12
WEST VIRGINIA: Rockefeller '08
