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CBC Monitor Report Card: Black Caucus Adrift

Wednesday, 22 October 2008

by Leutisha Stills, CBC Monitor

[Financial meltdowns and election tensions have had a negative effect on CBC Monitor Report Card scores. Under tremendous pressure to “buckle to party discipline and to align with standard bearer Barack Obama,” the Congressional Black Caucus performed generally badly, this past grading period. Not one member made a perfect score, and six were rated as “Derelicts.” Most dramatic were the two votes on Pelosi-Bush-McCain-Obama Wall Street bailout bills. Obama’s intervention doomed the resistance. Ten members topped off the class with B+….]

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