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!
You better DUMP Nancy Boehner or Obama will get everything he wants the next 2 years
I think Obama and Dems just Scammed the GOP AGAIN , LOL
Boehner needs to go...RIGHT NOW.
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.
It coulda been 3 Trillion without any Republican cuts.
I'm just sayn.
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.
ONE BILLION to build brand new towns and homes for illegal invaders....just wonderful.
My heart flutters....
So what will the budget deficit be this year another TRILLION, maybe two?
It still has to go to the Senate and then to a Senate committee, and a vote, then to a conference committee then back to the House and then back to the Senate......(sigh)
That’s a lot of going back and forth, and some TEA-hero may just jump up and throw a monkey wrench in the works to delay it before the new Congress is sworn in.
We can only pray and hope.
How bout them republiCrats? LESSER OF TWO EVILS, STRIKES AGAIN!
But hey, WE WON, WE WON THE ELECTION! HURRAY FOR OUR SIDE, right?
Was pleased to see my congresscritter, DesJarlais, stood firm and voted against it.
Waiting for the roll call to show up to see if any other TN Pubbies did the same. Some have marched in lockstep with Bonehead too many times.
Truly a pathetic statement. I hope Boehner has a miserable Christmas.
Amazing that Boehner forgot to take that out.