Posted on 12/11/2014 7:59:54 PM PST by maggief
Dem uprising. What is this, pro wrestling?
Previously:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3236203/posts
Reindeer farmer saves ‘cromnibus’ with yes vote (Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich.)
But Bentivolio said he was convinced to change his vote by the argument that voting down the rule would have ceded leverage to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
“I was the first one to vote no as a protest vote because I don’t support amnesty,” he said in a phone interview. “But when I realized that we were about to give Nancy Pelosi the floor, I said to hell with that and changed my vote.”
Bentivolio, who lost reelection in a primary earlier this year, said he still plans to vote against the CRomnibus, however, and predicted that leadership will end up having to pass a short-term continuing resolution.
“Merry Christmas to ‘em. They’ll have to deal with it in the next Congress,” he said.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/11/michigan-rep-christmas-congress/20251645/
In an interview, Bentivolio said he will vote against the budget deal because it doesn’t block President Barack Obama’s executive action allowing up to 5 million illegal immigrants to work in the United States and remain here.
He said he had cast a protest vote against the rule but changed his mind “because I didn’t want to give Nancy Pelosi the floor.” He said he looked up at vote tally “and I said ‘holy cow,’ it really is 212-212. I can’t give the victory to Nancy Pelosi,” the House Democratic leader.
Bentiovolio added that “I know I don’t want to shut the government down.”
He said Republicans always vote in favor of the rule.
“I didn’t really agree with it, but I want to have an opportunity to vote against the ($1 trillion spending bill),” Bentivolio said, adding that the spending bill has many good provisions but said he couldn’t support it for not blocking what he called Obama’s “amnesty action.”
He also complained that he has lost his office — a fate suffered by other departing members of Congress — and his staff is working out of a cafeteria. Bentivolio says he “doesn’t like voting on a 1,600-page bill that I really haven’t had an opportunity to read.”
Asked what he plans to do next, Bentivolio said: “I plan to follow in the footsteps of Jesus: broke and homeless” — referring cryptically to his finances.
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Pelosi: GOP doesn’t have the votes
The Hill ^ | 12/11/2014 | Mike Lillis
Scumbags to the left, Scumbags to the right and the Tea Party is the only salvation in town!
One-party spin.
You better DUMP Nancy Boehner or Obama will get everything he wants the next 2 years
It’s all theater. In the end Congress always thumbs its collective nose at us and does what it wants.
It is time now for a third party, a conservative party....
I think Obama and Dems just Scammed the GOP AGAIN , LOL
F U John Boner
Boehner needs to go...RIGHT NOW.
I’m fairly certain they are both scamming us. Right wing , Left wing two wings of the same globalist bird.
Each and every one.
For eternity.
Could have written a CR for: immigration amnesty, obamaumaocare, and to stop the derivatives FDIC backing for banks....then funded the rest for 3 months. And let the Dem senate say no to that.
Could have. But instead 1.1 Trillion all the way to Sept.
A@@holes all of them.
And the two step with Pelosi and Steny hoyer, as if they don’t TALK to each other. This was strategic kabuki like we’ve never seen.
The chickenshiite RINOs worried about being blamed for a govt. shutdown— which they would have been but SO WHAT. WE sent a message— and they did all this in the lame duck session— without any need to respect the voting results. A@@holes. Could not ever run a business, period.
There’s clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle
It coulda been 3 Trillion without any Republican cuts.
I'm just sayn.
Scam implies an unwillingness on the part of the scammed. So I don't think scam is the word you're looking for.
A better use of scam would be, "The GOP scammed the voters again," or even "Scam me once, shame on you; scam me twice, shame on me," which I imagine millions of voters are thinking right about now.
A vote which should be subject to prosecution IMHO.
Trying times.
... It really does appear that both sides are being played like a fiddle. Heck .... The dialogue being spewed out by the main Democrat players reads like a cheesy crappy political soap opera.
... watch Warren take the forefront in this stupid melodramatic event.
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