Byron Dorgan, Kent Conrad Vote Against Ending TARP

  •  January 23, 2010

Which is odd, for Dorgan at least, given that he voted against the creation of TARP under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
Was that vote cast while his mind was on re-election this year? And is he now voting his conscience given that he doesn’t have to run for re-election?
That would seem to be the case.
As far as Conrad is concerned, how can a self-described “deficit hawk” continue support for a program that has no purpose any more (given that the money is being repaid) and is now being used as little more than a slush fund for use by the Obama administration to engage in more nebulous “economic rescue” efforts?
You can see the votes for the amendment (introduced by Senator Thune) to terminate TARP here.

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  • http://Array sayanything-279

    At the townhall I attended last August the fact the he hadn’t voted for it was a point he made sure to make at least twice, ” I didn’t vote to give those guys that money”. At the time his party did not need his vote to pass it. His no vote then was for political cover. Now he has nothing to protect and will vote his conscience.

  • sayanything-279

    Oh, if only to have a Senator Thune in NDak.

  • sayanything-4523

    Obama will not be re-elected in 2012 if he continues down this same path. Watch in 2012 the deficit hawk (Conrad) will also be retiring. Pomeroy is between a rock and a hard place and would also like to retire, but does not want to copy Dorgan. Obama has been bad for this country and the working folks. But, we did get to see the true colors of (Dorgan, Conrad and Pomeroy), and they do not represent the majority of the people from North Dakota.

  • sayanything-106

    Rob I think Conrad doesn’t get it and doesn’t think his seat is in jeopardy. Let him keep voting extreme left and when it comes time to pay the piper the right/bloggers will hammer him.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Dorganoff’s not running for reelection.

  • mikend

    Pairiefencer is very right, they have always voted left, and always brought the money home, that is the problem! Why is it when you give a Indian money you call it Welfare but when you give a Farmer money its called a Program? We have to understand that any money coming back to the state is coming from SOMEONES POCKET and as soon as that is understood maybe people will start looking at PROGRAMS a little different…

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Conrad’s a fraud.

  • sayanything-32073

    The three stooges have been voting this way the whole time they have been in Washington. It is just that not enough people pay attention to how they vote come election time. Let’s hope this time it will be different. We should have recall elections at times like these.

  • sayanything-7654

    2nd comment hasn’t been posted…hmmmm

  • sayanything-7654

    I put a letter I got from Dorgan last week and my response on the comments of this Tribune story.
    “Health care is starting to take a back seat”.
    http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_d9991eca-0716-11df-8744-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=story

    Also mentioned the possible Pomeroy leaping out of the race.

  • sayanything-6955

    Too bad Conrad is not up this go around, he is more despised then Dorgan.

  • sayanything-7654

    no, I was talking about the Tribune site at that moment.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    I just checked the moderation panel and I don’t see any unapproved comments from you.

    There are two comments in this thread. Was there supposed to be another one?

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