News flash-—Roberts was a no vote on the Senate bill that passed.
He was a yes note on cloture and that’s all that matters.
Wake up!
McConnell told his GOP moderates to vote ‘Yes’ on cloture and they could cover themselves with a ‘No’ on the bill.
It’s a trick that progressive republicans use to boost their conservative credentials. It advances their underlying progressive agenda while making themselves look conservative. The GOP establishment can safely vote against Amnesty after they hand the opportunity to the democrats to vote for it. And it passed just as they knew it would. If they were truly against it, they would have voted ‘No’ on cloture and the Amnesty Bill would have been shelved. But McConnell backed by funds from the Chamber of Commerce told his progressive ring to vote ‘Yes’ for Cloture and then whatever they wanted on the actual bill as it would not matter. The Cloture Vote was the real vote.
Here on FR we are on to McConnell and his tricks. Roberts is one of the old tired horses in his stable. Roberts does what he’s told once he’s given cover.
If McConnell becomes Senate Majority leader, he will advance Amnesty by making a head fake ‘bipartisan’ agreement on ‘Border Security’, and then will move the bipartisan bill to the House where Boehner will call a floor vote and use all the dems and a few GOP progressive House members to pass it for Obama’s signature. GOP progressives in both House and Senate will praise themselves for sticking to their fake conservative principles on Border Security. And the America people just as before will never see Border Security even though they overwhelmingly want it. Bet on it!