Repukes from moderate districts voting with the teafucks have put big fat targets

[cali]

on their vile backs.

repukes like Michael Grimm from Staten Island:

Rep. Michael Grimm voted with the Tea Party for a bill that pushed the federal government toward shutdown, a move Democrats hope to hang around his neck in his 2014 reelection bid.

As the House voted repeatedly Monday to attach an Obamacare delay to government funding bills, Grimm (R-Staten Island) and other Republicans from moderate districts, clearly uneasy, voted with their party leaders — but blasted Tea Party conservatives for forcing the showdown.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/staten-island-grimm-joins-lockstep-tea-vote-article-1.1473482#ixzz2gZM5DZJA

[Shivering Jemmy]

1. DUers in these states need to develop a plan

to pressure these lawmakers.

[OregonBlue]

2. Found this on a website called FedSmith. I think it may be fairly right-wing but what was intersting

was that they did a survey of their readers in 2012 and found that 35.1% of those who participated identified themselves as a Republican. 30.8% identified themselves as independents. And 30.7% identified themselves as a Democrats.

The GOP is assuming that all those federal employees are Democrats. They're not.

This may not turn out as well for them as they think.