Posted on 11/19/2014 5:39:14 AM PST by sr4402
Harry Reid personally voted against Landrieu and screwed his own party.
Checking the Roll Call this morning, Harry Reid's vote is Nay.
Why did he allow the vote (since he rules the Senate with an iron fist) and then vote against her and ruin her chances in Louisiana?
Nothing short of the Bills passage would have saved her down there. She's too little to late now and the union jobs are being pooched.
And Obama stands above it all to pooch the Union jobs with a veto promise.
This might have been the last chance for the Democrat Party (notice I didn't say Democratic Party) to appear reasonable. Now they look like Russian Commissars thumbing their noses at the States.
Fortunately for us, there was a wave, and they will be washed up on the beach to dry out soon enough.
No, look at it this way. With a new senate, there will be a new vote. Bam bam will veto it anyway, but this way, the voters of Louisiana are being shown, that, on this issue anyway, Landrieu and Cassidy would vote the same way. If Keystone is your thing, there is no need to vote against Landrieu. To Reid, passing it was never the issue. Getting Landrieu on the record as voting for it was.
what does “pooch” mean
Because Reid KNOWS that the Senate and the House are now in Republicans hands and whatever Obama does will be blamed on Republicans by the MSM. He will say ‘they won’t act, so I will’ and then continue to destroy the country. Wake up, Republicans! Find a LOUDER VOICE!
Let me try. Impooch?
Wrong.
As a fighting party, rather than an accomodationist party, the Democrats short-term goal is to make their base more discontented, more angry, more fanatical, to prepare them for the moment when the Crisis of Capitalism culminates and the Revolutionary Vanguard seizes power.
The outcome of elections determined by simple arithmetical counting of votes, especially in benighted swamps like Louisiana, concerns them not at all.
And, let's be honest. Is there anything about Republican victory that SHOULD give them any reason for concern?
| YEAs ---59 | ||
| Alexander (R-TN) Ayotte (R-NH) Barrasso (R-WY) Begich (D-AK) Bennet (D-CO) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Burr (R-NC) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Chambliss (R-GA) Coats (R-IN) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) Cruz (R-TX) Donnelly (D-IN) |
Enzi (R-WY) Fischer (R-NE) Flake (R-AZ) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Hagan (D-NC) Hatch (R-UT) Heitkamp (D-ND) Heller (R-NV) Hoeven (R-ND) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Johnson (R-WI) Kirk (R-IL) Landrieu (D-LA) Lee (R-UT) Manchin (D-WV) McCain (R-AZ) McCaskill (D-MO) |
McConnell (R-KY) Moran (R-KS) Murkowski (R-AK) Paul (R-KY) Portman (R-OH) Pryor (D-AR) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Rubio (R-FL) Scott (R-SC) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Tester (D-MT) Thune (R-SD) Toomey (R-PA) Vitter (R-LA) Walsh (D-MT) Warner (D-VA) Wicker (R-MS) |
| NAYs ---41 | ||
| Baldwin (D-WI) Blumenthal (D-CT) Booker (D-NJ) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Coons (D-DE) Durbin (D-IL) Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN) Gillibrand (D-NY) Harkin (D-IA) Heinrich (D-NM) |
Hirono (D-HI) Johnson (D-SD) Kaine (D-VA) King (I-ME) Klobuchar (D-MN) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Markey (D-MA) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Mikulski (D-MD) Murphy (D-CT) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) |
Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schatz (D-HI) Schumer (D-NY) Shaheen (D-NH) Stabenow (D-MI) Udall (D-CO) Udall (D-NM) Warren (D-MA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR) |
Demodummies have been given their marching orders when it comes to voting against ANYTHING they support. There is no freedom for any of them to decide good or bad otherwise. “You will vote as we tell you or else”.
Going agains’t them will get you an office in the basement next to the door where the trash is sent.
Udall (D-CO)
Johnson (D-SD)
Harkin (D-IA)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
I see those noble good ole Independents voted with the D’s against. King is as clueless as it gets.
Who knows, but I always like “Screwed the Pooch”. Sounds funny. That Taliban version “Screwed the Goat” is another option.
Other Keystone Pipeline threads as the vote was being held:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3228448/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3228480/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3228446/posts
But by allowing the vote under his iron rule and then voting against her, she can take it personally and so can the American people.
Democrats do not vote for the people, they vote for power over people. Your characterization of them as the Revolutionary Vanguard is spot on.
And as far as the Republican “victory” is concerned (actually it was a case of winning by default), for the next two years the Dems will go right back to their old reliable, and highly successful, manipulation tactics against the hapless and naive Pubbies. They will con them into “reaching across the isle” and joining them in passing “bipartisan” legislation. But this just means “let’s do it our way”. It will be back to the same old game that we’ve seen play out countless times before.
If any if those 4 voted yes we would have this bill on Obama desk?
As far as Harry Reid, I believe he is obligated to vote yes so he can bring the bill back in the future.
Yeah, she will say that she has the courage to vote against her party’s leadership and for the interests of Louisianans. Its all a crock of gumbo, but that is what she will say.
Obama hates Keystone, they showed support for Obama.
He was protecting obama from having to veto it.
Belive you me there is zero bad blood between Mary Landrieu and Harry Reid. When porky pig Landrieu returns to the Senate as a mega lobbyist to schmooze Harry and da boys they will have a good laugh about the old days.
Harry Reid cut his loses and made a smart move for Democrats. Harry Reid is happy he now has time to relax now that he doesn’t have to run the Senate
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