Not principled opposition - just another political whore looking for his payoff.
“Insufficient spending”
He should have no worries there. The Dims will fix that.
Can you explain....I was under the impression that they had found a way to pass this no matter how many votes they had.
props to him, then.
I REALLY don’t like this circus with Nancy Pelosi bending over backwards on the trapeze, trying to attract votes.
DeFasiio can be assured that his bread will get buttered this week end.
Rush said there are 30-40 votes that are unknown. This is now a known one.
Whoa! That’s a Big Deal. Maybe this isn’t a goner.
Oh how I would love to be a fly on the wall at all the behind-the-scenes arm twisting sessions going on within the Democrat caucus right now.
My hunch is that DeFazio is tired of the “no” votes getting paid off to switch while guys like him who have been on board from the beginning are getting nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of this.
MSNBC is now running a crawl saying (I’m paraphrasing) that the vote may be delayed beyond Sunday if the Dems can’t nail down 216. This is the first time I’ve seen this, interesting, do you think Nancy is starting to cover her rear?
It may be Pelosi has told her butt boys to switch to no if they fear unemployment. The calculation may be DemonPass will draw anger on the Congress as a whole, but spare each “Yeah” POS Representative.
Once this is over she and Reid are counting on the GOP to resume their role as Willing Ass Kissers. I am hoping against hope that no matter how this turns out, the GOP finally gets it. To win this war, we have to be willing to fight.
[I would type the equivalent of willing Lewinsky’ers or Kucinich’er’s but don’t want to get my post pulled :-) Might not type it, but you can be damned sure I am thinking it.]
"John Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 4 (Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution) - NO. III. - paragraph 144
"Obista principiis (translation: resist the beginnings), nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society."
Any Democrat who stands against this President and these tyrannical leaders of the House and Senate deserves the praise and recognition of a grateful nation.
Let’s send DeFazio some emails congratulating him on deciding to vote no. We can’t afford for him to flip back the other way.
Voting in new representatives won’t change Congress. It’s in need of a drastic rules overhaul. And term limits.
I read that Utica, New York’s Congressman Mike Arcuri also now has said “NO”. My dad’s home town comes through.
Any one remember Utica Club Beer? How ‘bout Schultz and Dooley?
[Mr] T
DeFazio does the right thing. Now hold his feet to the fire to ensure he doesn’t switch back.
Didn’t hold out for the bigger prize, dumbazz?
Shuler needs to get support. As a young man at Swain County high he aspired to be a Christian example among the young people, and my cousins responded to that. I’m betting that his opposition is based on abortion and not on finances...at least not totally on finances.
He comes from a religiously conservative district in terms of life, self-protection, etc., and they will expect him to do the right thing.
We should NOT let the abortion issue drop. It is the major issue blocking this legislation.
His time in the emerald city as an nfl qback probably injured his spirit. God is in the resurrection business.