At first I thought it was Republicans celebrating too, it makes more sense than the rats singing, figuring the vote means they win a majority next election. Apperently it was a delibrete call back to Republicans chanting the same song to a rat Congresswoman in 1993 after she voted for Clinton’s budget/tax hike.
Goes to show you that hypocrisy is the mother’s milk of politics, and that there are way too many a-holes who were already there in 1993 to remember that.
Well said. Amen.
Well, *I* wasn’t in Congress in 1993, but I remember the story of how they sang “Na-Na Hey-Hey Kiss It Goodbye” to Congresswoman MMM (Marjorie MaSomethingorother-Mezvinsky, now Chelsea Clinton’s step-mother-in-law) because she was forced to cast the tie-breaking vote for the tax increase (due to last-minute Democrat defections) even though she represented economically conservative, traditionally Republican Paa-13 in Montgomery County, PA. My law-school roommate was from the Philly suburbs, and would tell the story of how MMM was near tears as she went to cast the vote. MMM did lose reelection in 1994 (to Jon Fox), and the GOP won control of the House for the first time in 50 years. (Alas, Fox was a weak incumbent, barely won reelection in 1996 and ten lost to Joe Hoeffel in 1998, and PA-13 now is a safely RAT CD.)
So if I were a congressional Democrat, I would know about that 1993 vote and naybe be tempted to sing that song in a pique of hubris as Republicans from CDs carried by Hillary voted for the bill. Of course, repealing Obamacare is not the equivalent of raising taxes and Republicans from states in which Obamacare (like, say, CA) can point to the fact that CA won’t opt out of the Obamacare requirements for health-insurance coverage and thus their voters won’t lose coverage.