Can you say :” Bye , bye ,..FATHEAD !”
With nine Democrats on the committee lined up against the proposal, the chairman needed the support of all ten Republicans to issue the subpoena. But, though it seems an issue tailor-made for the tea-party star and Republican presidential candidate, Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) refused to lend his support. And when the Louisiana senator set a public vote for April 23, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies got involved.
“For whatever reason, leadership decided they wanted that vote to be 5–5, all Republicans, to give Senator Paul cover,” one high-ranking committee staffer tells National Review. “So they worked at a member level to change the votes of otherwise supportive senators.” Four Republicans — senators Mike Enzi, James Risch, Kelly Ayotte, and Deb Fischer — had promised to support Vitter, but that would soon change.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418055/how-five-republicans-let-congress-keep-its-fraudulent-obamacare-subsidies-brendan
Yes. That would be the Ruling Party that routinely plunders and defrauds the people they're supposed to be working for. My Senator is one of the turncoats and will not get my vote ever again. My Congressman has already forfeited my support for good. Which leaves me in a conservative state with a Republican in the House and a Republican in the Senate and they're both worthless political hacks who vote me down the river when their own interests demand it. There isn't very far to go from here to hanging the lot of them.