Posted on 04/15/2011 1:23:24 PM PDT by Monitor
It looks like RSC colluded with the Democrats versus Chairman Ryan’s budget proposal.
Is this what their constituents elected them to do?
My guess is the “Republican Study Committee” is heavily libertarian.
Getting serious would be nice.
A case of union thuggery imitated in the halls of Congress.
But it did throw the brightly, brilliant Republicans off stride there for a minute or two.
Forget what is good for the nation or We the People. These idiotic simpletons instead chose to act like little spoiled brats who did not get their way and instead threw a tantrum by voting “present”. As far as I am concerned, if vote “present” on ANYTHING, you should lose your vote. Plain and simple, end of story.
Pathetic, just eff’n PATHETIC.
Chaos on the floor of the House of Representatives indicates that the system is functioning as intended.
Yes, just saw that. You beat me to the post. Good job.
GOP is doing a fine job of unsettling itself.
Looks like the Republican “Leadership” in the House is more afraid of Hoyer than the American people. They can’t even vote straight. They come out looking ‘divided’ (120-119 good lord).
Now there's a telling little detail...
Why would 120 Republicans (or RINOs?) side with the RATs?
Remember
“It is the best &#$% we can hope for.”
While it certainly has a few libertarians, no doubt, it is primarily conservative, or at least the closest facsimile thereof to be found in Congress.
“Why would 120 Republicans (or RINOs?) side with the RATs?”
Money, Power, Greed, Etc. Etc.!
I wish every republican in the senate would vote “present” on every bill they know they’re not going to win. Then the dems will have to claim them when it all goes to hell.
I couldn’t be in congress. I’d be kicked out for slapping some little weasel like Jackson or Patrick Kenedy if he was still there. I understand why there used to be duels. I wish there still were.
Likely the GOPers really supported the tougher bill, while the rats simply wanted a talking point about killing Grandma and GOP disunity.
It is all about the 2012 campaign for the rats.
The way I read it is that the Study Group bill was more conservative than even Ryan’s Bill. It was assumed, by Republicans, that the democrats would naturally vote against it in total, so all the Republicans needed to vote FOR it. These Republicans are, however, invested in Ryan’s Budget Bill and no other. So, when the Dems instead of voting against it, voted PRESENT, it forced the Republicans to back away and change their vote to NO in order to kill this bill and save the real one—Ryan’s. Otherwise this Study Group Budget would have passed and that was not the republican plan.
By the way, their were nine differently timed interruptions which caused nine protestors in the gallery to be tossed.
So they’re more revolting than usual?
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