Posted on 06/27/2009 11:56:50 PM PDT by newbie2008
As John notes below, the House passed cap-and-trade energy tax legislation last night even though no complete copy of that legislation existed, making it impossible for our representatives to know exactly what they were voting on. The vote was 219-212.
Eight Republicans voted in favor of the legislation. They are: Mary Bono (CA), Mike Castle (DE), Mark Kirk (IL), Leonard Lance (NJ), Frank LoBiondo (NJ), Chris Smith (NJ), John McHugh (NY), and David Reichert (WA).
It doesn't follow that these Republican votes (or at least four them) were critical to the passage of cap-and-trade. In the absence of Republican support, the Democratic leadership probably would have forced the necessary number of reluctant Dems to vote for the measure, instead of letting them off the hook.
But the eight Republicans still (a) voted for job-killing legislation rushed through before anyone could know exactly what it entails and (b) gave aid and comfort to some Democratic representatives by enabling them to avoid paying a political price for a "yea" vote they were prepared to provide if Speaker Pelosi needed it.
those 8 republicans sacrificed their seats so 8 Democrats could keep theirs.
And in the end, this “piece of shit” is going to die in the Senate.
We hope it dies in the Senate, you mean.
long list of repubulicans to kick out.
- Cap and Trade Vote
- Stimulus Vote
- Tarp 1 and 2
Let us hope so.
I think Stimulus didn’t get any republican support in the house
Cap and trade did and that is worse.
“It doesn’t follow that these Republican votes (or at least four them) were critical to the passage of cap-and-trade.”
Why are they giving cover to these pieces of sh!t?
LoBiondo’s my rep. I think I’ll call him Monday and let him know he’s fired.
Why doesn’t someone just play the audio of Obama stating last year while he was campaigning that his cap and trade legislation would cause “energy prices to skyrocket” on the senate floor?
There were three Republicans who voted for the Prokulus bill.
With the attention span of about 3 to 10 seconda (the average TV camera's time on shot) Wacko's death kept the bubble gum AINO's (Americans in name only) from being reminded that their asses were about to be handed to them.
Still looking for Boehner's speech ... I have the entire 5 1/2 hr session, but it's too long to wade through just for Boehner
Sorry, that’s supposed to be “pile of shit”.
Amnesty as well
There wasn’t a single Republican who voted for the Porkulus bill in the House.
The three you are thinking of were in the Senate.
(Formerly Republican) Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins.
Poop is poop. Quantity isn't the issue.
Bart.
It is interesting, that this is actually his second fairly recent scatological references.
Just some months back he called the bailout a “crap sandwich”.
Okay. On that note if you have to eat a poop sandwich the more bread you have the less poop you have to eat.
The bailout and cap and trade is pure s##t. I try to avoid dirty words when possible.
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