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"This is why the American people have thrown you out of power"
First, a little red meat: GOP Rep. Buyer blasts Acting Speaker Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA) for her partisan animosity…
Via CBS.com:
Buyer this afternoon asked Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson of California, who is acting as speaker, to yield time for him to speak on a veterans bill. Richardson refused, prompting Buyer to ask sarcastically, “as a sitting member of the House, the speaker chooses not to recognize another sitting member, is that correct?”Richardson responds that the decision on recognizing Buyer is up to the speaker – that is, her. An increasingly frustrated Buyer replies that she is choosing not to recognize a ranking Republican member dispute the fact that isn’t anyone on the floor to object to his request.
“This is why the American people have thrown you out of power,” he says to Richardson. He then begins walking around the chamber angrily, throwing down a folder and muttering that Democrats are wasting time despite the fact that there are many things to be done, including repeal of the health care reform bill.
While we’re on the subject of being removed from office, idiotic notions of “bipartisanship” like the 8 RINOs who voted against the GOP’s proposed ban on earmarks are why the American people threw Republicans out of Congress in 2008.
The Senate Tuesday rejected a GOP bid to ban the practice of larding spending bills with earmarks — those pet projects that lawmakers love to send home to their states.Most Democrats and a handful of Republicans combined to defeat the effort, which would have effectively forbidden the Senate from considering legislation containing earmarks like road and bridge projects, community development funding, grants to local police departments and special-interest tax breaks.
The 39-56 tally, however, was a better showing for earmark opponents, who lost a 29-68 vote earlier this year. Any votes next year should be closer because a band of anti-earmark Republicans is joining the Senate.
Earlier this month, Republicans bowed to tea party activists and passed a party resolution declaring GOP senators would give up earmarks. House Republicans have also given up the practice, but most Democrats say earmarks are a legitimate way to direct taxpayer money to their constituents.
…Seven Democrats voted with all but eight Republicans to ban the practice.
If Republicans don’t get rid of their unilateral kumbaya notions and do the job for which the voters returned them to Congress, they’ll get the same treatment Democrats received last month. Let legislation stand or fall on its own merits, stop trying to sneak unpopular spending in with popular measures. What part of “HELL NO!” don’t they understand?
The eight Republicans who voted with the Democrats were:
- Robert Bennett of Utah
- Thad Cochran of Mississippi
- Susan Collins of Maine
- James Inhofe of Oklahoma
- Richard Lugar of Indiana
- Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
- Richard Shelby of Alabama
- George Voinovich of Ohio
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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
We need to get rid of little Dickie Lugar here in Indiana