“No offense intended. She is “my” representative, but I really see no reason for her to show up for this vote. It will pass, and many of the no votes would switch to yes if their party told them to do so.”
Agree 100%. Anyone who thought this vote was in doubt is a dummy...how many times do we have to get snowed over to understand these ruses?
What hurts is how many times these votes are repeated. TARP, Stimulus, Debt Ceiling - it makes a mockery of representation.
Giffords’ district is more conservative than she is, but it doesn’t matter. For example, in the final days before the 2010 election, Gabby posted signs all over boasting of her endorsement by the VFW. If you stopped your car and read it carefully, in very small print at the bottom was that it was the VFW PAC. And what went unmentioned, including in the local news, was that the VFW PAC was dissolved by the VFW in retaliation for their giving Gabby an endorsement.
But I honestly wonder if it really matters who we vote for any more. If Allan West can go to DC and stab us in the back, and if darn near all the Congressmen lie about what they are doing, then in what sense are we a democratic republic?
I spent 25 years in the US military, and right now, I don’t know why I bothered.