Mea culpa for having taken so long to post this. I’m sure you’re all dying to see how the Shameful Six fared this week at the trough.
Well, the vote on the actual embarrassment budget was technically a voice-vote, so nobody would formally have to go “on record” as having voted for it (ah, the integrity of our elected representatives, matched only by the president who found time to hold a ceremony for the ladies on the same day but ducked away out of sight to put pen to paper to use your tax dollars, but I digress…).
The real vote was on cloture to move the question in the first place. If a Senator wanted to stop this piggish legislation, this is where he’d have done it. And did our half-dozen redeem themselves?
Sen Richard Shelby (R-Alabama): Yea
Sen Kit Bond (R-Missouri): Yea
Sen Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi): Yea
Sen Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska): Yea
Sen James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma): Nay
Sen Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky): Nay
Senators Shelby, Bond, Cochran, and Murkowski should be ashamed of themselves. If they’re not, their constituents should contact them to let them know how ashamed they are of them.
Oh, but there’s more! Even other embarrassing “Republican” Senators voted for this monster:
Sen Lamar Alexander (Tennessee) (contact here)
Sen Olympia Snowe (Maine) (contact here) (
Sen Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania) (contact here)
Sen Roger Wicker (Mississippi) (contact here)
Fear not, budget hawks! We have the following Democrats on our side (all voting Nay):
Sen Evan Bayh (Indiana)
Sen Russ Feingold (Wisconsin)
Sen Claire McCaskill (Missouri)
Just think…a couple more Decent Democrats, and we could have had a victory for responsible government. These three deserve our thanks and should be commended for going against Harry Reid and President Obama and their shameful and irresponsible use of our money. The eight “Republicans” who voted Yea should find other work.
Who needs a drink?
-Nick (Colorado Patriot) from HQ
Probably the much vaunted Gen. Shinseki after he confirmed that Chairman Obama’s cost saving plan of having our soldiers bill their own insurance for wounds received in combat.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=61312
TGC, then don’t forget he’s now voting ‘present’ on the idea of taxing those same insurance benefits.
Yes, let us attack the ‘eeeevvvviiiiiilllll’ insurance companies. until we want something from them.
I saw an article in the Tulsa World the other day that listed the amount some Tulsa-area public school districts PAID to lobby Congress for money.
I thought we paid local/state/federal politicians for this.
I think Ike warned us about the military-industrial complex. That’s nothing compared to the circle jerk that is government-lobbyists-media.