Update: An emailer points out that the 54 Rs and Ds who abstained from voting on the motion must have made President Obama, with his history of over 100 “present” votes in the Illinois state legislature, very proud.
Minority Leader John Boehner’s Motion to Recommit, which would have frozen federal spending at current levels and stripped the 9,000 un-reviewed earmarks from the $410,000,000,000.00 omnibus spending bill currently working its way through Congress, was voted down 160-218 this afternoon.
Every Republican who voted did so in support of the measure, as did 8 Democrats (Reps. Altmire, Childers, Donnelly, Ellsworth, Giffords, Minnick, Mitchell and Nye; h/t Connie Hair at HE for the names).
26 Republicans and 28 Democrats abstained from voting on the motion altogether.
The 26 Republicans who abstained from voting on this motion are listed below the fold. Is your Congressman one of them?
Barrett (SC)
Bono Mack
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Cao
Coffman (CO)
Deal (GA)
Duncan
Ehlers
Gallegly
Issa
Johnson (IL)
Jordan (OH)
McHugh
Miller, Gary
Pitts
Putnam
Rogers (KY)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Shimkus
Sullivan
Tiberi
Dan McLaughlin
Vladimir
Moe Lane
Mark Impomeni
Neil Stevens
I don't guess the headlines will read
bk Friday, March 6th at 1:05PM EST (link)“Democrats overcome bipartisan opposition and defeat popular attempt to remove thousands of earmarks”
And is there an explanation for these folks other than being chickens?
“26 Republicans and 28 Democrats abstained from voting on the motion altogether.”
I'm sure there is...
aardpig Friday, March 6th at 1:30PM EST (link)If they had voted, it wouldn’t have made a difference to the outcome; but at the same time, it may have angered their constituents, who could stand to benefit from the earmarks. (Dollar-wise, I believe the earmarks are split about evenly between D and R).
So, just a bit of realpolitik; nothing to see, move on.,,
“I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C and D. Just who do they think they are?”. — B.G.
Bull Puckey!!
USNJIMRET Friday, March 6th at 1:52PM EST (link)Oh not that you aren’t absolutely correct in your analysis.
Just that this is exactly, precisely, detail by detail how the Republicans in Congress got to be such glorious, failure prone RINO’s!!
And, while my specific Congress Critter is a Freshman liberal Democrat, I am disappointed, to say the least, to see that Colorado’s Freshman Republican Congress Critter (Coffman) learned the rope a dope Washington shuffle so quick.
Although I am certain that he will be quick to point out how his voting for pork to buy votes in his district is oh so different the some democrat doing the same thing.
You are right - this is how we got where we are.
Praying Friday, March 6th at 2:24PM EST (link)I just fired a nasty gram email off to Jimmy Duncan (R-TN) who is NORMALLY a pretty good fiscal conservative. The end result may not have been changed, but there guys have got to get back to standing together on principle. They got a lot more positive PR (from the right) for their stand on the stimulus than anything since. If these guys are worried about being labeled “obstructionists” then they don’t have what it takes to be in office…..
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itrytobenice Saturday, March 7th at 10:02AM EST (link)He’s not been a fiscal rock, but at least he’s good some of the time.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?