'Fool me twice, shame on me'

americanthinker.com ^ | 12/13/14 | Doris Carender

[cotton1706]

As the vote on the Rule to bring the $1 trillion-plus funding bill to the floor of the US House of Representatives was about to start yesterday, I and many of my fellow conservatives were still burning up the phone lines to Republicans, saying “NO”! This is a paraphrase of the way one of my calls went:

Congressional Office: This is Congressman Robert Wittman’s Office.

Me: Hello, I’m not from your district, but I am active in Republican precinct work and have been a contributor to Republican candidates in several states. I would appreciate it if you would give my message to Congressman Wittman that grassroots Republicans are asking him to vote “No” on the Rule. It makes no sense to us why the Republicans in the House would choose to severely limit their options available after January 2015 with a larger House majority and a Republican run Senate. Why would they want to tie up their own hands until well into 2015 by funding everything President Obama wants now---Amnesty and Obamacare?

Congressional Office: (brusquely) The President is getting everything he wants...what he wants is the Republicans fighting each other. This is going to pass. (click)

Minutes later, Congressman Wittman was one of those who voted in favor of the Rule that allowed the bloated Cromnibus bill to come to the floor for a vote.

Hours later, when the vote on the actual funding bill took place, Lo and Behold! Congressman Wittman was a changed man. He voted against the trillion dollar monstrosity.

[cotton1706]

"Congressman Wittman is not alone in practicing this chicanery. His office just happened to give us a really clear example of it. The other 50 Representatives who voted like him are just as guilty. There are articles all over the media naming the 16 Heroes of the House (h/t Redstate) who really meant their opposition and meant to keep the bill from being passed. There are also numerous listings of the 67 who voted against the Cromnibus once it came to the floor. Take a look and see if your Representative is on both lists or only on the latter. If he or she only voted “no” on the second vote, don’t let him or her fool you again."

[cotton1706]

“the rule” is the cloture of the House. Like the senators that vote to “proceed to debate” and then vote against the bill, congressmen vote “for the rule” and then against the bill, when they know it will pass.

They get to have it both ways. They get the legislation they want but can tell their constituents that they voted against it.

But we’re on to their game!

[USNBandit]

looks like time for a 2015 remix

[yldstrk]

well I would love a link to such an article

[Truth29]

Follow the inks in the thread article.

[stockpirate]

The fascist republican leadership do not care what conservatives want, they are dictators-arms with the Obama fascists in congress.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Fool me a hundred times, time to leave the Republican Party . . . .

[Hostage]

McConnell and his minions in the US Senate use the same tactic. Cruz called him on it last year and exposed him.

And yet McConnell thinks we’re all so stupid as he points to his American Conservative Union ratings to buttress his conservative bona fides.

[Adder]

While I agree with your sentiments, where exactly can we go? I am stunned and angry that this is what they chose to do and piously aver “wait til next year,,,,we’ll show ‘ me and how!!’

The pub bites could start by cleaning the leadership house,,,but I don’t see that happening.

[yldstrk]

Congressman Huelskamp of Kansas

The sole Kansas Congressman with a spine.

[Tupelo]

My Congress Critter voted no. For the wrong reason but she did vote NO.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., released the following statement about her vote today against the House GOP’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Resolution introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc.:

“The Ryan budget will damage my Arizona district, and I intend to fight it tooth and nail. I cannot support a plan that shuts the door on investments in infrastructure, education, science and public health. These are the foundations of our local economies. And I cannot support a plan that punishes our seniors, veterans, workers and families. This reckless plan scraps the promise of traditional Medicare and replaces it with a voucher system. It reopens the Rx ‘donut hole,’ forcing seniors to pay more for prescriptions. It allows insurance companies to once again charge women more than men for the same coverage. And it cuts Head Start and other vital education funding. I’ve been listening to the seniors and families across my district – and they are the reason I’m fighting the Ryan budget.”

[yldstrk]

Mine, Yoder of Kansas, voted yes. I just sent him an email reminding him he is not entitled to an opinion, his job is to be a representative. And that we don’t want obamacare, amnesty, bailouts for businesses too inept to balance the books or any reaching across the aisle.

[Nuc 1.1]

My Congressman voted against the rule. I just sent him a Well Done e-mail. That is refreshing for a change.

[ziravan]

Bill Flores TX17 Yes on rule, No on passage.

Ironically, he defeated Chet Edwards by pointing out this exact hypocrisy on Obamacare.

[Texicanus]

Yes, very disappointed on Bill Flores vote Friday night. Seems after they get elected and sent to Washington, they change and become what they were sent to replace.

[Textide]

So did mine. Wrote him to thank him for having the balls to stand up to the ‘Leadership’ in the House.

[Waryone]

My congressman is one of the 16 good ones, he voted against “the rule” and the bill. Has anyone yet put together a list of the 51 (67 - 16 = 51) congressmen who voted against the bill but for “the rule” and think we are idiots? I really believe putting a target on each of their backs would be a good thing.

[Waryone]

There are 52 not 51 congressmen who voted for the rule but sham voted against the CRomnibus bill. The name of one of the sixteen who voted against the rule does not appear on the list of those who voted against the bill.

1. Wittman, R. (R-VA)
2. Williams, R. (R-TX)
3. Webster, D. (R-FL)
4. Weber, R. (R-TX)
5. Stutzman, M. (R-IN)
6. Smith, L. (R-TX)
7. Smith, C. (R-NJ)
8. Sensenbrenner, F. (R-WI)
9. Scott, A. (R-GA)
10. Schweikert, D. (R-AZ)
11. Sanford, M. (R-SC)
12. Rohrabacher, D. (R-CA)
13. Rogers, M. (R-AL)
14. Pompeo, M. (R-KS)
15. Poe, T. (R-TX)
16. Perry, S. (R-PA)
17. Olson, P. (R-TX)
18. Neugebauer, R. (R-TX)
19. Mulvaney, M. (R-SC)
20. Miller, J. (R-FL)
21. Meadows, M. (R-NC)
22. McKinley, D. (R-WV)
23. McClintock, T. (R-CA)
24. McAllister, V. (R-LA)
25. Marchant, K. (R-TX)
26. Lummis, C. (R-WY)
27. Lankford, J. (R-OK)
28. Lamborn, D. (R-CO)
29. LaMalfa, D. (R-CA)
30. Johnson, S. (R-TX)
31. Hurt, R. (R-VA)
32. Griffith, H. (R-VA)
33. Gowdy, T. (R-SC)
34. Garrett, S. (R-NJ)
35. Franks, T. (R-AZ)
36. Flores, B. (R-TX)
37. Fleming, J. (R-LA)
38. Farenthold, B. (R-TX)
39. Duncan, J. (R-TN)
40. Duncan, J. (R-SC)
41. DesJarlais, S. (R-TN)
42. DeSantis, R. (R-FL)
43. Crawford, R. (R-AR)
44. Cotton, T. (R-AR)
45. Conaway, K. (R-TX)
46. Clawson, C. (R-FL)
47. Rice, T. (R-SC)
48. Burgess, M. (R-TX)
49. Bridenstine, J. (R-OK)
50. Blackburn, M. (R-TN)
51. Bentivolio, K. (R-MI)
52. Barton, J. (R-TX)

These 52 believe we are as stupid as Gruber says. They need to be told something different.

[husky ed]

I know my Congressman (Doc Hastings) voted for it. Have to keep the govmint tit flowing at Hanford ($2Billion with a 'B' for next year). :(

Ed

[zeugma]

48. Burgess, M. (R-TX) - my lying bag of excrement of a “representative”.