Is he asking the GOP "what do I get if I switch"? Or just playing around to show how "moderate" he is?
The last rat to vote GOP for Speaker was Jim Traficant in 2001, they kicked him out of the rat caucus for it, stripped his committee assignments.
>> Is he asking the GOP “what do I get if I switch”? Or just playing around to show how “moderate” he is?
Or is Boner liberal enough to suit him?
Ping
He’s no Blue Dog. He was comfortable voting to re-elect Pelosi as the leader of his party. Screw him. We don’t need or want his support.
When in doubt, I always follow the Limbaugh rule: “Never trust anyone with a ‘D’ after his name.”
I’ve lived in New York since 1971 and I can’t recall a single Democrat politician I would trust. The same could be said of a good many New York “Republicans”, too.
This is the guy who beat Doug Hoffman by 3000 votes in 2009 and then won again by a plurality in 2010 by fewer votes than Hoffman siphoned off of the GOP challenger by running as an independent.
So he’s in one of the most conservative districts to still have a Democrat rep. (Thank you, Doug Hoffman!) He’s voted for Obamacare and all, but it makes sense for the Dems to let him talk moderate smack here and there and on votes for which his wouldn’t be decisive.
Just another socialist.
For a second there, I thought they were talking about Congressman Major Owens (who retired in 2006 or so). Now *that* would have been a shocker!
This is shameless posturing on the part of Bill Owens. As Impy mentioned, voting for a GOP Speaker is the one thing that will get a RAT kicked off the RAT caucus; on the other hand, voting for some other Democrat in an non-competitive Speaker election has been deemed to be an acceptable protest. So if Owens votes for Boehner it would be tantamount to him announcing a party switch. However, how can he possibly appear credible switching to the GOP if not only has he compiled a liberal voting record, but actually voted for Pelosi for Minority Leader over Heath Shuler? I think that this is Owens’s way of announcing that he’s a “thoughtful moderate” who will consider what is best for his district . . . before voting for Pelosi for Speaker.
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