Any Republican Senator who votes for cloture — that is, who votes to allow Harry Reid to strip the defunding measures for ObamaCare out of the House CR so that it can pass “cleanly” with no amendments and a simple majority vote, which Senate Democrats already have — is effectively and in fact voting affirmatively to fund ObamaCare.
Please visit Don’t Fund Obmacare and contact your Senators and any Republican Senators you know to be either on the fence or willing to sell you out (lists and phone numbers etc., provided), hoping the procedural machinations of the Senate will confuse you, and that their subsequent potemkin vote to defund ObamaCare will give them cover. Tell them you know what they’re doing. Tell them that if they refuse to vote no on cloture, their vote to fund ObamaCare means nothing to you — because you know what they are up to and you will make sure everyone else with GOP leanings who may not yet know eventually does.
Today we see the masks drop. We will compile the list of those who sell us out.
And yeah: I hope Ted Cruz and Mike Lee get one hell of an email list out of this. Because theirs would be one of the few email lists from Congress I won’t mind being on. Senators like Bob Corker may carp, but what they’re bitching about, in the end, is the fact that standing and fighting reaps rewards from the GOP base, while surrendering — and then running always on the need to fight fights you’ll never actually fight once elected — no longer works with an increasingly aware and engaged portion of the electorate.
The DC insiders, both in the GOP establishment and their mouthpieces, detest Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for putting them in the position of either listening to us or being shown for the cowards and parliamentary gimmick monkeys and gimmick monkey enablers they are.
Me, from here on the hated fringes of Hobbit land, where the Visigoths rape and plunder the language to the great dismay of collegial writers who never seem to have a problem launching broadsides against conservatives in the very manner they elsewhere decry, I’ll be gnawing on a leg of mutton and waiting for the quislings to reveal themselves. After which time I plan to sharpen my teeth.
Just had a very heated conversation with a staffer for my lone Republican senator. I called BS on his multi-dimensional chess spiel and told him precisely what was in the letter I received yesterday from Anthem, and how I was being punished by being a responsible citizen and taking care of my own family. I also told him, I would make it my life’s work to see him removed from office if he didn’t fight every step to keep this from happening.
Of course, I’ll get screwed again.
Ever since “deemed passed”, it seems that the Senate no longer needs to submit the changed legislation to the committee to hammer out any differences (although the compromise of a mutually contradictory, binary position is an argument I would love to hear), then to the House for re-consideration of the amended bill (with the Senate having to do the same thing if there were any differences between what they passed and what has been compromised out), and subsequent passage, thence to the Oval Office for the auto-signer to take care of one of the damned few actually Constitutionally specified duties that the President holds (but, to be fair, he’s had that tee-time reserved for days).
But since the paper that sets out that process was written by old, white slave-owners (and it’s old, too!), it no longer applies…
Not that laws apply to our new Ruling Class, of course…
I’m about one more betrayal away from renouncing citizenship, and applying for all those Gummint Bennies being given away to non-citizens. Hell, pretty soon, I’d be eligible to vote here in California again…
The down-side is that I would also suddenly be eligible for jury duty.
Kirk and Murkowski are both yeas.
Ayotte and Alexander too. That’s 4 fence sitters. This is over.
It’s only just begun, Pablo.
Ayotte is also a huge amnesty whore
It’s only just begun. . .
Right you are. Saddle up, boys.
The revolution has just begun. The capitulation is complete. The GOP is over.
Fine by me. They haven’t been grand in a long, long time.
Now they are Whigs. Let’s drive a stake through their hearts and be done with it.
79 yeas. Jesus.
The Republican party is neither concerned with the republic nor effectively much of a party. Discuss.
48-21 should be about the amount of votes the GOP loses ignoring the fence sitters with their damp fingers extended in the air.
If 79 yeas, then 21 nays? And not a single Democrat rat-bastard among the nays, we can presume? So if 21 GOPer nays, then 25 GOPee-ers pissing on our heads, a majority of the minority Party standing against the demands of the American people?
The Americans should form their own political party, in order to attain some representation which understands itself as such.
79 – 19, evidently.
-Legal Insurrection says that Hatch and Flake didn’t vote. Flake, it says, wasn’t even present, because he is attending his son’s wedding — but he had pledged to a “No” with Don’t Fund Obamacare. There is no explanation attributed to Hatch that I see.