Stop Me Before I Vote Again

John Conyers' almost-impeachment bill now has 25 co-sponsors. Here's the list -- and note that they're not all so-called "progressives." The non-progs are in italics:

• Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)
• Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
• Rep Lois Capps (D-CA)
• Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO)
• Rep John Conyers (D-MI)
• Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)
• Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
• Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA)
• Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX)
• Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)
• Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)
• Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
• Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA)
• Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)
• Rep.Gwen Moore (D-WI)
• Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
• Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN)
• Rep. Major Owens (D-NY)
• Rep.Donald Payne (D-NJ)
• Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)
• Rep.Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
• Rep. Fortney Pete Stark (D-CA)
• Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY)
• Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
• Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).

For homework, I compared this list of stalwarts to the Democrats' "progressive caucus" -- and found the following cardinals of the college of human enlightenment and liberation to be, erm, MIA:

• Xavier Becerra
• Madeleine Z. Bordallo
• Corrine Brown
• Sherrod Brown
• Michael Capuano
• Julia Carson
• Donna Christensen
• Emanuel Cleaver
• Elijah Cummings
• Danny Davis
• Peter DeFazio
• Rosa DeLauro
• Lane Evans
• Chaka Fattah
• Bob Filner
• Barney Frank
• Raul Grijalva
• Luis Gutierrez
• Jesse Jackson, Jr.
• Stephanie Tubbs Jones
• Marcy Kaptur
• Carolyn Kilpatrick
• Dennis Kucinich
• Tom Lantos
• James McGovern
• Ed Markey
• George Miller
• Eleanor Holmes-Norton
• John Olver
• Ed Pastor
• Bobby Rush
• Bernie Sanders
• Jose Serrano
• Louise Slaughter
• Hilda Solis
• Bennie Thompson
• John Tierney
• Tom Udall
• Diane Watson
• Mel Watt
• Henry Waxman

Notice, if you will, the Massachusetts Progs are all MIA -- Frank, and the M-n-M twins, Markey and McGovern. I'm glad to see Bernie Sanders on this list, and wouldn't want him off it, that sea-slug carpetbagger -- what use has he ever been to anything progressive except to betray it? (Maybe I've overlooked something -- if so, tell me.)

And Dennis Kucinich! Through the mystic gematria of alphabetic order, his name falls right next to that arch-vampire from the AIPAC crypt, the burning shame of the Bay Area, Tommy Lantos. Lantos is a "progressive"? Boy, if that doesn't blow the tent right off the whole tired, shabby carnival.

I could go on -- Sherrod Brown, for example, anointed by Schumer et al. as the Ohio Senate candidate over the bullet-riddled body of Kosnik heartthrob Paul Hackett. But enough for one day.

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