'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.

[itsahoot]

They get to have it both ways.

Remember when they used to rise and always say; Permission to revise and extend my remarks, even to include extraneous material.

In other words no matter what I say, I can change it all in the written record.