“Seasons Bleatings” From The Gang of 18

(As in “Let’s give those financial services geniuses $700 billion in TARP funds with no oversight, but loan $14 billion to the automakers to keep people at work? Are you nuts? Who cares who we screw over – as long as we put it to the UAW!)

Here they are by name:

Bob Bennett, R-UT
Richard Burr, R-NC
Saxby Chambliss, R-GA
Tom Coburn, R-OK
Norm Coleman, R-MN
Bob Corker, R-TN
John Ensign, R-NV
Chuck Grassley, R-IA
Judd Gregg, R-NH
Orrin Hatch, R-UT
Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-TX
Johnny Isakson, R-GA
Jon Kyl, R-AZ
Mel Martinez, R-FL
John McCain, R-AZ
Mitch McConnell, R-KY
Lisa Murkowski, R-AK
John Thune, R-SD

(A great big hat tip to Jed L over at The Daily Kos for the pic; he has been all over this like the proverbial “white on rice” - Think Progress has more here.)

Update 1: More from Michael Moore here...

Update 2: Actually, Think Progress has the total at 20, when you consider the two Dems who said yes to TARP but no to the autoworkers, and that would be Max Baucus of Montana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas (here - and in an appropriate postscript, Jim "I Hear Voices" Bunning (R-Crazyland) was due to sign baseball cards at a show in Taylor, MI, but he got booted off the schedule for refusing to support the Big Three loan).

Update 3 12/18/08: Here's the complete list for the vote on HR 7005 (took awhile, but I got it):

NAYs —35
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Corker (R-TN)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

You know, it would almost be worth it to see Reid lose in 2010 because of stuff like this.