Posted on 01/03/2013 9:40:13 AM PST by Sub-Driver
The bill, H.R. 8, originated inthe House.
He voted for it himself, hardly sticking “the Democrats with responsibility for it”.
The conservatives got to vote against it and have nice voting records to show their constituency. But they have no results to show them, no accomplishments.
Their votes meant nothing.
They were the sheep.
Thanks for the correction, the way this has been portrayed it’s like it was created in the Senate.
Did they even put anything in it in the House? Or did they leave it as an empty shell that the senate then filled in?
I believe this was the well-thought-out House bill to deal with the Fiscal Cliff passed last summer.
The Senate ignored it and at the last minute completely replaced everything in it by amendment.
Boehner’s breaking of that unwritten rule says he has few political principles other than simply to be in politics and as such he cares 10 times more about his personal power than he does about true majority power of his own party in the House of Representatives, when it has it.
If he had any true ethics as a party “leader” he would not have ran again for speaker of the House after he could not hold his own party with him on the dubious not-a-fiscal-remedy “fiscal cliff” deal.
The true interest rate (when actual inflation is considered) that the Fed is now charging banks is less than zero, and though I never thought my respect for Boehner could fall to below zero, it has now.
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