Seriously? You don’t understand that you can’t just vote for one part of a bill. Once you cast your vote, it’s for the whole ball of wax. There’s no excuse for “oooh, but I only voted for x and y but z just happened to be in it too, sorry.” That mentality is how the crooks get by with all they do. Put in something that would never get approved and it slides right in. No! He voted for the hate crime hogwash just the same as he voted for defense spending.
“Seriously? You don’t understand that you can’t just vote for one part of a bill. Once you cast your vote, it’s for the whole ball of wax.”
No kidding? Really? Calm down. I know how the voting works.
99.9 percent of the bill was about needed defense spending. The Matthew Shepard Act was added as an amendment, which neither of the Texas Senators voted for.
So, someone like Cornyn is faced with a decision: vote for the bill because he supports 99 percent of it; or vote against the bill because of the Matthew Shepard Act but then for the next year possibly be seen as voting against a defense appropriations bill. It’s not so simple as some here like to say; and blaming one of the more conservative Senators in the US may not be, in my mind, appropriate.
Cornyn is not the problem. The Democrats are the problem.
nail on head
I am fed up of those who vote D or R or the name of the guy they know ...
Even on here I have read where some think it is alright to vote for one person because they can ignore votes like this and then say they can’t blame them.
The GOP should have been making a noise so loud that every so called media outlet would have had to carry it, plus not voting for this