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(Analysis) Thursday night’s U.S. House vote extending war funding through September is being cast as a Democratic cave-in, even though most House Democrats including Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposed it. The major votes thus far in the House reveal some significant nuances.
This latest vote gives us a House Democratic caucus split into five unequal groups. I haven’t done a member-by-member analysis so this is rough math.
Not Another Penny: 8.
130, including Dave Loebsack and Bruce Braley, voted for deauthorization and against the blank-check bill passed Thursday.
30 take the odd position of voting to deauthorize, but if we can’t get that then we’ll give Bush what he wants.
Opposing deauthorization, but willing to vote for a funding bill with timelines, were about 50 including Leonard Boswell.
6 or 7 House Dems are pro-war.
Thus, despite the criticism tossed their way, Dave Loebsack and Bruce Braley are in the second-strongest anti-war group in the House, behind only the tiny handful of Not Another Penny folks. Meanwhile, Leonard Boswell is taking the weakest Democratic position except for the handful of openly pro-war Dems.
Related: As the Gannett papers round up Dave Loebsack’s votes and conclude he’s voted with the Democratic majority 100 percent, House Republicans have launched a campaign against freshman Dems for “voting like Nancy Pelosi.” But Loebsack and fellow Iowa first-termer Bruce Braley are absent from the list.
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