Saturday, January 5, 2013

Quick Fact(s) - Not Everyone Votes for Boehner and Republicans Want Their Leaders to be More Confrontational

1.   John Boehner was re-elected to serve as Speaker of the House this week by a vote of 220 to 192. He needed the final votes to get the win after 12 Republicans refused to vote for him. Ted Yoho of Florida said he voted for Mr. Cantor to “send a statement”. Steve Stockman of Texas voted “present” rather than make a commitment to anyone and Mick Mulvaney of So. Carolina stood in the back of the House chamber staring into empty space and refused to vote at all.

Mr. Yoho…and your statement would be what?--that you’re going to vote against everything? Haven’t we been through this before?
Mr. Stockman…publicly stating that you have no opinion will surely warm the hearts of those who voted for you.
And finally, Mr. Mulvaney…staring blankly into space as your state is called to register a vote--now that’s leadership your home state can be proud of.

 
2.   After the House voted to retain Mr. Boehner as Speaker and the Senate again chose Mitch McConnell as minority leader, the two men met with their fellow Republicans where they were greeted with complaints that neither leader had been “sufficiently confrontational with Mr. Obama”.

What? In what universe did these people pass the past four years? Maybe they all spent them staring blankly into empty air like Mr. Mulvaney, because that’s the only reason I can think of for not noticing that the last Congress was the most contentious and non-productive in U.S. history.

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