2/3 of GOPs in the House voted against the wishes of their President & their Presidential Candidate. What does this show?
Submitted 52 days ago by Hauli  Favorite
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| The Republican Party is imploding. | |
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| 55 votes 21% | |
| Even the Republican Party Faithful is tired of these clowns. | |
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| 117 votes 45% | |
| It was all Democratic Nancy Pelosi's fault. | |
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| They wanted to have the largest drop in the market's history at -738, so that the poor will be able to invest in stocks too. | |
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I think it shows that some of Republican party still believe in what the party is supposed to be about. But I had to vote your clown answer cause it was closest.
You could flip this though, and mention that 2/3rds of Dems voted for it. That must mean that they in fact love GWB and have finally realized what a genius he is. Or they like socialist ideas I guess.
I am glad it failed. But it's amazing to watch the GOP House leaders try to blame the Democrats for the failure. According to the McCain camp, it's all Obama's fault. What the fuck, man... just one massive intelligence insult.
I can't argue. I wish they would just come out and say it failed because it was a bad bill. I was mostly just pointing out how it goes both ways on this bill. The truth is that if the Dems unite behind this bill, it passes without the Republicans.
Uhhm... last I checked, so long as the Dems are united on any issue, it doesn't make any difference at all how the Repubs vote in Congress. If the Dems had wanted the bill to pass, it would have passed.
Filtering obvious reality through the lens of partisan politics is the real insult to intelligence. If House Democrats had wanted to stop the collapse of the stock market today, they could have. They chose not to. End of story.
But yes, this just proves what a lot of Repubs have been saying ever since the NCLB act, that Bush and his neocons aren't really as conservative/libertarian as they like to pretend during election seasons.
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The Republicans didn't have the votes they said they did. They have no leader right now.
What a stupid argument.
If you consider name-calling a cogent argument, I apologize for burdening you with reason and simple mathematics; consider this response directed toward others.
The Republicans obviously disagreed with each other, but 2/3 of the Repubs voted together, and slightly less than 2/3 of the Dems voted together, too. If 2/3 unity is disarray in your book, then both parties are in disarray, not just one.
House Democrats have passed tons of legislation along party lines without any Repub support at all. Only 3 of the 100+ page bill was drafted by the Republican administration, the rest was written by House Democrats. It was fundamentally flawed from the start and needed to be defeated.
If Obama and McCain hadn't taken off for a debate, maybe they could have helped work out a better bill before it came to the floor for a vote, and thus avoided the market crash. Now, we'll never know, but one thing is clear...
When Obama insisted on continuing debate plans, he said he could campaign and save the economy from a meltdown at the same time. I wonder if he knew at the time he was gambling his bid for the White House on it. He failed as miserably as he possibly could have. So did McCain for taking the bait.
I voted for Obama in the primary. I expected him to have better executive instincts than he has shown. McCain's executive instincts were good, but his resolve failed.
Yet again, America is faced with a choice between the lesser of two evils. I am tempted to cast a protest vote for Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate who correctly opposed this bill from the start.
If you were attempting to dispute my comment about the Republicans not having the votes they said they did, you did not succeed.
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Oh my, a talking turd!
Flush...
65 Republicans voted for it. 95 Democrats voted against it. I don't know if all those that voted against it were up for reelection, but they crossed their party. They were the majority and could have passed it. For some reason they did not want to.
Everyone in the House of Representatives is up for re-election. They have two-year terms. The only exceptions are incumbents not reoffering.
You didn't know that, really?
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Oh my, a talking turd!
Flush...
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Rachel Maddow made a fairly convincing argument that the Republican party has no leader at all right now.
The last leader they had was Reagan, wasn't it?
That's debatable too.
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Oh my, a talking turd!
Flush...
Oh my, a pointless troll I can disregard.
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Floater!
Double flush...
Look everybody! Jonmarc has a new user ID - this one with a little flag from Canada!
That makes three. Soon we can call him Sybil.
Unh, unh... she clearly identified their leader as Eric Cantor. ;o)
A sad day for everyone, Republicans and and Democrats. And, I fear, for Canada too; Great Depressions don't stop at the border.
Or at the coast of the Atlantic
Maybe Europe could give us some money then.
We totally would! Except we left our wallet in the other läderhosen.
A "depression" was coming either way. By passing the bail out all they would have done was delay the inevitable.
There is a huge bubble and it needs to burst.