Posted on 03/24/2009 4:13:09 PM PDT by radar101
EFCA was not going to pass anyhow.
Even though it had a lot of support in 07 and 08, everyone knew that President Bush was going to veto it. It was a free vote for the democrats.
This time, it would be for real- Obama is committed to sign it. Specter’s opposition gives the democrat leadership an excuse not to bring it up during this Congress and not to put some of their members between a rock and a hard place on whether to offend the unions or offend their constituents.
Senator Specter bailed out the Democrat leadership this time.
Sometimes RINO is (R)ino first. I pray this is one of those times.
The fact that this d#ckhead even had to THINK about it is reason enough to evict him from the party in 2010.
The fact that SPECTRE even has to agonize over this vote proves what a pitiful RINO wanker he is. Glad for his “decision” but I can’t respect anyone who would deny the secret ballot to workers so that union thugs can intimidate everyone.
The price wasn’t right...
If Specter was the vote that put this over he would be dead meat and he knows it. I do not think there was a higher motivation.
“Well, of course I am,” Mr. Specter said when asked if he’s worried about the conservative backlash. “But (President) John Kennedy had it right. He said, ‘Sometimes the party asks too much.’ And this is something I think is necessary for the country. It goes beyond politics. It goes beyond the Democratic or Republican position. It’s the right thing for America.”
Mr. Specter said he would have supported the package even if Democrats had not added $6.5 billion in additional money for the National Institutes of Health to the final version of the bill.
Mr. Specter had sought the money for years, and had mentioned that he wanted the money in the bill when he met with President Barack Obama last week.
“That’s only one small part ... That’s not determinative in my mind,” he said.
The stimulus vote could create “a political problem,” he said, but “I thought the public interest was so important that I have to take whatever problems it brings me.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181685/posts
I agree. But whatever his motivation was, I’m glad the Orwellian named “Free Choice Act” is dead, even if took a country club RINO looking out for his chances come next election time to do it.
Let’s not celebrate just yet.
Some other RINO may bail out Obama or maybe the GOP is starting to see the public is on to the Kenyan-born marxist.
give him a day or two, he’ll roll over
Snarlin' Sphincter is like a stopped clock in that even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Just wrong the rest of the time.
That is the key. He knows he will lose 2010 if he is the decisive vote. He's just saving his own a&*.
Franken’s vote???
Here's what I've heard. Colman is behind by 225 officially. Because they know it favors them and they are dishonest, judges in rat controlled counties attempt to enforce loose standards on absentee ballots. They don't cross check anything before separating the ballot from the envelope. They want the body cremated as soon as possible.
The non-rat counties followed the letter of the law and, as always, excluded a number of ballots on technicalities, like the address of the witness being in the wrong precinct. The votes the rat counties decided to allow were opened and fed into the general vote population. They can't be undone.
Coleman is arguing that, per Bush vs. the loony nut case, this is a violation of equal protection and the only remedy is to count all the excluded votes in Republican counties that would have passed in the most corrupt precincts of St. Louis county. They claim they're are enough of them to make the difference.
I will not believe it until this socialist piece of legislation is defeated. It would be nice if he really does vote against it, but I’m skeptical. We can’t trust him! He has to go!!
Harry “The Body” Reid needs to demand that Franken be allowed to vote on this important piece of legislation.
I got a roll of tens just in case that comes to fruition dear.
The union thugs are a bunch of wimps and pansies, depending on the government to do something they cannot do on their own.
We shouldn’t bitch too much, I guess. They are just following the liberal playbook.
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