THE MYTH OF MODERATE HOUSE REPUBLICANS

The House just passed a bill to make the Bush tax-giveaway permanent. Only one Republican mustered up the courage to stand up against this onslaught of Norquistomics. I give you the One Moderate Republican in the House: Connie Morella (MD). (Marge Roukema (NJ) didn't vote).

Also nine more Democratic representatives confirmed their status as pseudo-Dems. Could someone find me an issue on which Ralph Hall (TX) actually votes with his party? Can we even count on these pseudo-Dems to even vote for Gephart as Speaker of the House were the Dems to get a majority in 2002? I'm not sure.