{"id":17170,"date":"2026-09-03T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=17170"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:51:08","slug":"democrats-yay-but-only-a-handful-vote-to-denounce-marxism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=17170","title":{"rendered":"Democrats (Yay!&#8230; but only a handful&#8230;) vote to denounce Marxism."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>From the Wall Street Journal, James Freeman&#8217;s column. What courage!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/handful-of-house-democrats-vote-to-denounce-murderous-marxism-125e7291?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/handful-of-house-democrats-vote-to-denounce-murderous-marxism-125e7291?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\">On Tuesday this column noted the four House Democrats who didn\u2019t want to endorse the voter ID legislation known as the SAVE Act but were willing to offer an amendment condemning the socialists staging a takeover of their party. Their outstanding amendment detailed the bloody history of Marxist cruelty. Though it did not receive a floor vote, it\u2019s nice to see signs of life for the spirit of liberty within a party that often seems to have resigned itself to serving as a vehicle for Sandernista revolution.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/karl-marx-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17171\" style=\"width:243px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/karl-marx-2.jpg 678w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/karl-marx-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the number of House Democrats willing to go on record against this horror has risen to at least 12, counting the eight Democrats who voted yesterday for a resolution from Rep. Jeff Crank (R., Colo.) that both called for voter ID requirements and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-resolution\/1490\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also stated<\/a> that \u201csocialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, the fact that just 12 out of 213 House Democrats were willing to stand up and condemn history\u2019s most murderous ideology is still pathetic. Among the Democrats voting against the Crank resolution known as H.Res. 1490 was Rep. Chris Pappas (D., N.H.), who is perhaps not yet convinced that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/kamala-to-the-rescue-9b76934b?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">late endorsement<\/a> from former Vice President Kamala Harris can save him in a Senate primary against a democratic socialist. He\u2019s among 192 Democrats who voted no. Eleven House Democrats didn\u2019t vote and two, Reps. Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, voted \u201cpresent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Present? More if you hit the link above.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal, James Freeman&#8217;s column. What courage! On Tuesday this column noted the four House Democrats who didn\u2019t want to endorse the voter ID legislation known as the SAVE Act but were willing to offer an amendment condemning the socialists staging a takeover of their party. Their outstanding amendment detailed the bloody &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats (Yay!&#8230; but only a handful&#8230;) vote to denounce Marxism.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=17170\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats (Yay!&#8230; but only a handful&#8230;) vote to denounce Marxism.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-politics","category-stupid-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17183,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17170\/revisions\/17183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}