Posted on 02/27/2015 3:36:14 PM PST by kristinn
Rep. David Scott sat through a tongue-lashing from his Democratic colleagues Friday afternoon after casting one of the caucus's few yes votes in favor of a three-week funding bill for the Homeland Security Department.
Seated in front of the fireplace in the House Speaker's lobby—a position he'd held most of the afternoon—Scott suddenly found himself on the receiving end of a tirade from Rep. Corrine Brown. "You are making a mistake!" Brown shouted, in full view of reporters. "The strength of the wolf is in the pack. You are voting with these damn Republicans! What is wrong with you?"
Scott pleaded that he had to vote for his constituents, only to find Rep. John Lewis on the other side of him, saying that he too had plenty of DHS workers in his district. Soon, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver joined the huddle, begging Scott to change his vote.
"I'm not voting with them," Scott said, meaning Republicans. "I'm voting for my district." Butterfield countered: "You've been here 16 years. You can explain."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi briefly joined the scrum, leaning in behind Scott to say something out of earshot of reporters. As the group started to break up, Rep. Lacy Clay looked over his shoulder at Scott. "You know what you've got to do," he said.
Alone now, Scott remained in his chair, not yielding to the pleas of his colleagues. Approached after the dustup, the Atlanta representative was unrepentant. "I represent more TSA agents than anybody," he said. "I represent the world's busiest airport. I represent the counties where they live. … When I walk through that airport—'Congressman, you're looking out for us.' I tell them I'm going to do everything I can to keep their check coming."
Asked what he told his colleagues, Scott said his message was the same. "I'm just voting for my district, the people that vote for me," he said. "Hey, you'll have to just excuse me on this one."
Anyone have a link to the vote results, Who voted how yet?
Great. Now the story is SHUTDOWN . It could have been about the Conference Committee and the Senate RATs refusal to compromise. So what’s plan B now?
Bipartisanship at it's finest.
They’re eating their own.
Shock! A non-koolaid drinker in their very presence! Eek a mouse! Kill it. He will pay in some manner. Maybe Nancy won’t follow or ‘like’ him anymore on Facebook.
If (and he is) obama is breaking the LAW with Amnesty, Men of Principles (Not Party) HAVE to VOTE this DOWN!!! Yes it is That SIMPLE!!!
No wonder we feel like sheeple, we've been are under constant attack by these vicious and fanged democrats.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll104.xml
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 104
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
H J RES 35 YEA-AND-NAY 27-Feb-2015 5:13 PM
Plan B is that the dimmis and Obama have shut down the oh so very important DHS.
Period.
Make them squirm!
Two thoughts and questions: (1) Does this guy have security? And, (2) Does this mean I won’t be groped by TSA at the airport on Monday?
With ISIS as the JV squad, there shouldn’t be any danger. Unless Obama is worried that they Wil come across the border.
In that case I would leave the amnesty wording in the bill and preface it with, the border wall has to be completed before funding for illegals kicks in.
Now give it to Obama.
FTFY.
Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now this is the Law of the Jungle --
as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper,
but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk
the Law runneth forward and back --
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf,
and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
But he forgot the rest of the story, which follows the lines of "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" -
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Otherwise they'd have to give up blow and hookers.
Damn the country, the party needs me!!!!
BTW, anyone else catch Pelosi's presser today around lunchtime--a complete lunatic, unhinged.
How any Republican can even talk to her is beyond me.
I thought the house could pass the bill with amendments and when it went back to the Senate they could not filibuster
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