AMERICAblog: GOP Senators filibuster Defense bill for their oil company benefactors
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
It has NEVER been about the soldiers, or the war for that matter. It has ALWAYS been about the oil. Any oil. The filthy neo-con republicans don't care how many die nor how many they kill so long as they get the oil. Grampa McSame has said as much, 100 years of American blood.
dougg
· 1 year ago
And John McCain's vote was ____________?
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
I know this is way off topic, but please allow me to wander a bit.
The infamous Bill Orally is now asking people to vote on John McCain's campaign performance. I have already done so, but I'm sure we ALL could muster a click or two, yes?
"but they're white like me and say they're Christian so I vote for them!"-repub voters
MikeinSanJo
· 1 year ago
What exactly are the "procedural reasons" that would force Reid to vote no?
Every repuke in the senate could have voted no, but the only thing the media and repuke voters will see is that Reid voted no, so it was the Dem's fault.
Jim_in_Raleigh
· 1 year ago
To answer MikeinSanJo's question; by voting in the majority (i.e. No in this case) Harry Reid can bring the issue back for another vote. If he had kept his original Yes vote the issue could only have been raised by a Republican. And the chance of that would have been ??
highdeserthome
· 1 year ago
MikeinSanJo,
The reason that Reid, or any Senate or House leader of either party, votes against a bill that they favor is when they don't have enough votes to move the item forward or pass is to gain the producural right to be able to introduce the bill again for another vote if and when they have been able to change the minds of enough of the "nays" to have the number needed to be successful. For that reason a Senate or House leader will vote last so that they will know if they need to do this to be able to set up eligibility to keep the item active since only someone who voted with the side that prevailed, even if that was a minority like in this case that was able to block consideration of the item. Otherwise, the item cannot be re-considered during the session of that house of the legislature. This holds true for state legislatures, county supervisors, city councils, and the board of directors or board of trustees of all school and public agencies.
Savage8862
· 1 year ago
The Democrats will eventually cave and Reid will allow for the oil drilling vote. Reid initially will show outrage but he will eventually fall in line with what the Republicans want.
Joneses
· 1 year ago
The corp. media will change the facts to show that the GOP loves the American people and of course loves the troops and the reason why our troops are over there in the middle east is to bring hope to the people there, while in the mean time, protecting the oil, while the oil companies are protecting their interest, I mean the interest of the American people by , destroying the U.S. lands that the GOP don't care about, while they are getting richer. But, Obama is playing the race card.
FunMe
· 1 year ago
Wait a second!
Isn't Miss Bitch McConnell gay ... closet and all?
This is the thanks she gives the troops after all the "service" they gave her, for a price of course?
What an ungrateful bitch!
;-)
Brendan_M
· 1 year ago
Clever. Thanks for raising the discourse. You know, there are certainly no substantive criticisms to make of McConnell and the GOP voting against the troops, so we definitely have to resort to that kind of stuff.
DeadeyeDickCheney
· 1 year ago
2 words: Nuclear Option.
MElouise
· 1 year ago
Instead of "oil company benefactors", wouldn't it be more accurately "evil oil company overloads"?
rwheuser
· 1 year ago
savage 8862 is on the mark. this is typical of democrats in the senate. they can't bite the bullet. draw a line in the sand. highdeserthome, i will assume, is correct in what he says. but can tis lead to going in circles and accomplishing nothing? i love this blog.
grannysue
· 1 year ago
What I want to know is it true that those members of the GOP who stayed after and did their little sit in, were they drunk and urinating on the Dems side of the isle, as was written by someone who was an aide and there on Politico, who also stated that a Page was, servicing a member, and this person was videoing it when another member realized it he took the guys cell phone and ran??? I don't like rumors, but I will say if this was the case, it needs to be reported. As far as their act of voting in favor of big oil instead of the troops, what's the surprise there, but I'm sure they were all wearing their little flag pins!
All Comments
The filthy neo-con republicans don't care how many die nor how many they kill so long as they get the oil.
Grampa McSame has said as much, 100 years of American blood.
The infamous Bill Orally is now asking people to vote on John McCain's campaign performance. I have already done so, but I'm sure we ALL could muster a click or two, yes?
http://www.billoreilly.com/site
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/31/mccain-oil-...
& would it kill you to scroll down
Every repuke in the senate could have voted no, but the only thing the media and repuke voters will see is that Reid voted no, so it was the Dem's fault.
The reason that Reid, or any Senate or House leader of either party, votes against a bill that they favor is when they don't have enough votes to move the item forward or pass is to gain the producural right to be able to introduce the bill again for another vote if and when they have been able to change the minds of enough of the "nays" to have the number needed to be successful. For that reason a Senate or House leader will vote last so that they will know if they need to do this to be able to set up eligibility to keep the item active since only someone who voted with the side that prevailed, even if that was a minority like in this case that was able to block consideration of the item. Otherwise, the item cannot be re-considered during the session of that house of the legislature. This holds true for state legislatures, county supervisors, city councils, and the board of directors or board of trustees of all school and public agencies.
Isn't Miss Bitch McConnell gay ... closet and all?
This is the thanks she gives the troops after all the "service" they gave her, for a price of course?
What an ungrateful bitch!
;-)
tis lead to going in circles and accomplishing nothing? i love this blog.