May 9, 2008...8:46 am
House Republicans vote against their own Mothers.
Obstructionist Republicans continue doing everything in Washington DC except their jobs, including voting against their own resolutions.
On Wednesday, the House took up the seemingly uncontroversial H. Res. 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day.” The resolution initially passed 412 to 0, until Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) rose in protest:
Mr. Speaker, I ask for a recorded vote because I’m sure every member wants their mother to know that they have supported the goals of Mother’s Day.
Well, 177 mothers of House Republicans will be disappointed to know their sons and daughters voted against them — or maybe they won’t, these moms must know by now what kind of children they raised.
House Minority Leader John Boehner dismissed the bizarre vote of his Republicans saying, “Oh, we just wanted to make sure that everyone was on record in support of Mother’s Day.” By the way, Boehner is against his mother as well.
In the comments section of this post on ThinkProgress, MsJoanne reported on her conversation with Rep Tiahrt’s staff:
I just got off the phone with Mr. Tiahrt’s office in DC. Apparently, they are going to stop votes on EVERYTHING until they get what they want in the Emergency Supplemental Bill. The goopers will be doing Motions To Reconsider every bill presented until they get what they want in the supplemental.
Great…thugs, thugs, and more thugs.
She expands on that conversation in another comment:
The guy I talked with said that they are going to use this procedural motion to stop everything “to bring to light” what they want in the bill. This man said that they have no say in it. I asked if this was a war funding bill and he replied that it was war, medicare, science, etc. (That made me a bit afraid in that they probably want to further reduce everything but the war.)
He also said that Mr Tiahrt’s district fully supported the war.
This is your government at work, folks. Not only do they throw trillions of dollars at a war which can never be won, but they piss away time and tax dollars on petty obstructionist games. This is how they “represent” us.
Both of the Representatives from my state voted against their mothers as well. How does your Rep feel about his/her mother?
ThinkProgress has video of this shameful waste of time here.
8 Comments
May 9, 2008 at 9:22 am
The party of family values? I think not!
May 9, 2008 at 9:30 am
More like the party of no values, well, other than war, destruction, cronyism, partianship, lies, and deceit. That’s their party line.
All for the party (and party supports) and screw the rest of US.
May 9, 2008 at 9:49 am
I liked what I posted at TP so much that I’ll repost it here. I know, I know. That’s very Republican of me to not want to have to think.
If this really is the goal of this money-wasting, time-wasting, credibility-destroying tactic, then fine, let them do it. Just don’t ever bring any bill to the floor for a vote that includes any funding for the war in Iraq. Period. Blame the Republicans and say that the vote has to be rescheduled every time they pull one of these stunts.
Why do people vote to send Republicans to government, when they see their entire purpose in life as being to show that government doesn’t work? And why doesn’t it work? Because Republicans keep trying to thwart any good that it might be able to do. Then they pat themselves on the back and say, “See? We were right. Government doesn’t work.” Hypocritical asswipes.
May 9, 2008 at 9:54 am
So, how much money was wasted with this effort? Ok, math is not my strong suit but this is what I calculated.
- Average Salary of a Congressperson: $160,000
- Average Days Worked: 150
- Average floor time for a bill (based on what my idiot Rep Kirk’s office told me and this is excluding time to write the bill): 5-15 minutes - I will use 10 minutes
- Number of bills affected this week (From the Library of Congress Thomas site): 37
Total wasted tax payer money: $357,666 in playing games to get their war funding.
May 9, 2008 at 10:13 am
They can obstruct all they want because the RNCC does NOT have any money to give to the incumbent Republicans in the House. They are on their own come November which means they have to raise their own campaign money. The Democrats that are running against these Republican incumbents will have a lot of ammunition to attack these do-nothings.
May 9, 2008 at 10:16 am
Actually, with a lame duck president to back them up, the Republican Congressional members are pretty much lame ducks, too. Don’t expect too much to happen this presidential election year. The Legislative and Executive branches are basically lame ducks until January 22, 2009. There will not be any significant legislation passed this year, only the bare minimum needed to keep the government running.
May 9, 2008 at 10:19 am
If all the Rs are lame ducks, why don’t we have the numbers for impeachment?
Rhetorical…useless…I know.
May 9, 2008 at 10:28 am
Hey, math really isn’t my strong suit! I only considered 10 minutes for tabling the bill, not the other 10 minutes for UNTABLING the bill.
This would bring the cost to a whopping THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS!
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