Posted on 09/14/2010 9:43:38 AM PDT by WaterBoard
Rush Limbaugh today stated on his radio show that Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) voted in favor of House Resolution 1258 on June 11, 2008.
What was "On Motion to Refer: H RES 1258 The Kucinich Privilege Resolution"?
Answer: "Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors"
24 Republicans voted with the Democrat majority and that did include Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE).
Vote Record: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-401
Bill Information: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hr110-1258
(Excerpt) Read more at govtrack.us ...
What’s wrong with letting them bring it up again and again? Every time they do, it just makes them look stupider and stupider.
But that wouldn’t even have been an issue since since the Rats already had 227 votes, more than enough to pass the resolution. They didn’t need a single Republican vote and yet they got 24 of them.
Even if there was a valid parliamentary reason to do this, politically it was as dumb as could be, and it’s come back to bite Castle in the ass no matter how you try to spin it.
Yeah, I heard the call.
The Castle drones are out in force today.
I wonder if they look in the mirror if they see anything?
You support a man who votes as a Democrat does against his Republican colleagues.
Why bother being on Freep or just a DU troll?
Cross posting
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Castle’s campaign questions O’Donnell’s trustworthiness. GOP primary voters need to question Castle’s. He was just one of two Republicans to vote for the $26 billion Edujobs/BigGovJobs bailout a few weeks ago. He supported the TARP bailout that benefited many of his political donors.
And he is the co-founder of the George Soros-tied Republican Main Street Partnership — which, as I reported in 2005, successfully pressured the House GOP majority to cave in to enviros on the ANWR drilling ban.
The Republican Main Street Partnership PAC supports ACORN-friendly, Big Labor-backing, tax-and-spend, abortion radicals in GOP clothing like Dede Scozzafava.
This isn’t “Main Street.” This is the road to progressive hell. We already have one too many shady Soros Republicans in the Senate — and John McCain doesn’t need any more company.
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/09/13/the-de-senate-gop-primary-castle-soros-a-health-advisory/
NINE TERMS IS ENOUGH !!!
TERM LIMITS !!!
I guess you are doomed over there. I think it more likely that if Castle is the deciding vote, he will sell himself to the highest bidder. That would more than likely lead him to jump ship, just as his clone Jeffords did.
Now we know why you like Castle so much. When did you fall in love with squishes?
Rush is addressing the resolution AGAIN!
And nailing Castle in the process.
Are you COMPLETELY uneducated with respect to the actual process of voting? Really? Do you not understand how it works, how the whip count works?
The Republican leadership WANTED to make sure the resolution passed. Since the Republican leadership doesn't know for sure how the each and every dem will vote, they find a certain number of Republicans to make sure the vote goes whichever way - for parliamentary reasons - they want it to go. In this case, they wanted it to pass.
"They didn’t need a single Republican vote and yet they got 24 of them."
And yet Peter King and Kevin Brady voted for it, too.
In other words, Castle didn't have the balls to vote against like the other Republicans. He has to play with "parliamentary procedures". Real choice candidate there.
Then why did 166 Republicans vote AGAINST it, if the leadership wanted it passed?
You're making less sense with each new post. Time to fold'em.
NO MORON - I'm not supporting Castle...
See previous posts FROM me here and here
Why bother being on Freep or just a DU troll?"
Look sport, just because someone calls you out on a intellectual vacant thread that YOU start, doesn't mean they're a DU troll.
Do you always use personal attacks on internet forums?
Must be the internet muscles forged in the fires of safe anonymity.
Is what you would expect someone to say who doesn't understand the parliamentary process.
Right, just like Pete King - because he "doesn't have any balls" either.
So how do you explain Rush Limbaugh’s argument that Castle joined with a bunch of moderates who approached Bush with a warning that he was losing support for the war? Given that
fact, why should we assume that Castle was only aiding a legislative death to an unpopular bill instead of actually voting....duh, how he felt?
Rush Limbaugh ain’t buying your assertion either but hey, like you like to argue....he’s too damn dumb to figure it out.
Maybe you should call a WHHAAAAAmbalance.
You called me "DU TROLL".
Wouldn’t it have been easier to tell all the republicans to vote for it if they wanted to MAKE SURE IT PASSED.
And it’s nice to know that Democrats all were so eager to give the Republican leadership what they wanted. How often does that happen?
Suppose no Republicans voted for this, and not enough Rats, so it wasn’t passed the first time.
Either they bring it up again for another vote or they don’t.
If they don’t, it’s all over, no Republican is on record for supporting impeachment.
If they do, and if it’s truly that important to have the bill die in committee, that’s when these games should have happened.
The Republican “leadership” should have seen that there was a tradeoff between the political damage of having any Republicans support impeachment and the questionable advantage of having that bill disappear into committee limbo.
They clearly made the wrong choice.
Wait a minute. Do you live in an alternate universe where Bush didn't lose support over the Iraq war? If I remember 2006 correctly, THAT is the primary reason the Republican got shellacked in the mid-terms.
As for the reason Castle voted the way he did, see the Powerlineblog article I posted just upthread. They quoted the liberal group that was pushing for Bush's impeachment, that were mistakenly encouraged by Castle's vote - thinking that Castle was now supporting impeachment too. Apparently, they also don't understand parliamentary procedures. But, they were set straight when they called Castle's office at the time of the vote...
First I called Senator Carper and was told that they would not support Impeachment at this time. I also called Congressman Castle's office and was completely shocked. I was told that the Congressman would not support Impeachment because they believed there weren't any crimes committed by the Bush administration.emphasis added
I'm not listening to the Limbaugh show, but It's pretty clear from some of the comments here, that he's talking about it. Sometimes, just sometimes, Rush gets things wrong.
There are plenty of reasons to oppose Castle, but this isn't one of them.
You just don't understand procedural voting, do you? /sarc
Lookit....this Deck hand guy obviously has no kind of life.
Castle supporters often do not.
He’ll always get the last word.
Just a hint. I’m just as dumb arguing with him but Rush has been on this subject for this past hour.
Limbaugh don’t buy the argument either that Castle was really just helping the bill to its death.
Rush’s argument is that Castle was one of a group of “moderate” Republicans who approached Bush to tell him that soon he would be loosing their support for the war.
Next thing you know...TADA...Castle votes for this lead up to impeachment and we’re suppose to believe that Castle did it cause he’s a good guy wanting to help the Republicans kill the bill.
when Castle, heh, never helped the Republicans.
The Castle defenders think we should do like Deck Hand and add two plus two and get five.
As they pee upon our feet and tell us it’s raining.
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