Posted on 02/14/2014 4:49:37 AM PST by jimbo123
When the Senate held a drama-filled procedural vote on raising the debt limit this week, there was one element missing from what should have been a typical roll call vote — the calling of the ayes and nays.
In nearly every roll call vote held on the Senate floor, the clerk reads who voted in the negative and in the affirmative before the final vote is called.
But on Wednesday, with the Senate engaged in arm twisting, senators switching votes, and the full faith and credit of the United States on the line, the Senate floor broke from normal procedure and went silent. The clerk never publicly announced how each senator voted, leaving viewers watching on CSPAN and observers not in the room in the dark about just how close the debt limit vote was.
Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, explained in a statement today that Senate Republicans made the request for the votes not to be called in order to convince their colleagues to switch their votes to advance the bill.
“After the vote began, it was quickly clear that Republican leaders were struggling to deliver enough votes to clear the 60-vote hurdle upon which they had insisted instead of a simple majority, and a potentially catastrophic default suddenly seemed possible,” Jentleson said. “At Senate Republicans’ request, the clerk did not call the names during the vote to make it easier for Republican leaders to convince their members to switch their votes.”
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McConnell = Weasel
Their constituents must be rightly proud of them./s
The strength of their convictions is far exceeded by their duplicity.
How (not) transparent by the hated EXEMPT
(and their EXEMPT Staff and EXEMPT families)
in their ENDLESS, selfserving desire
to give more money ... to themselves,
at the expense of their constituents (servants).
Just to be clear, there is NO debt ceiling.
The bill that passed states a timeframe in which there is NO debt ceiling - for the next 13 months. There is no dollar value now for the national debt.
Our grandchildren will spit on the floor at the mention of our names. We’ll be lucky if they don’t desecrate our graves, and scatter our remains for the carrion crows. My parents’ generation came to be known as the “greatest generation.” What do you suppose we will be called?
Despicable, absolutely despicable!
Traitors !
The "profligatist generation"
This constituent of McConnell lost all respect for the treasonous senator long ago and feel nothing but contempt for him now.
Amazing how one patriotic senator with a filibuster can expose the ugly
RINO’s pretending to be conservative, hiding in the shadows. Crawling
around like roaches.
Any idea how Angus king and Susan Collins voted? Am I reading the bill correctly when I come to the conclusion that there is no spending ceiling, that it is blank check for obama? I cannot find a dollar limit or any amount limiting the spending, am I reading the wrong bill?
Even kids know that when you feel the need to hide what you’re doing, it’s because you’re doing something wrong.
Wrong. Default would only occur if interest payments were not met.
“What do you suppose we will be called?”
The Locusts.
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