Partisan Congressional Voting
Posted by Moonage on 28 Apr 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics
Two bills just passed Congress:
This was the highly contentious political debate over the Ethics rules that had Congress in a gridlock. The Republicans caved in ( appropriately ) and dropped the issue in the Democrats lap. It was so contentious that the vote to repeal the previous contentious rules had 94% voted for it.
AND, we had this vote:
Sound contentious to you? It got 97% support. Neither of these were contentious votes with bipartisan support on each. One haggled over committee rules, the other haggled over the design of a coin seldom used. In essence, neither really had any affect on the common man.
So, then this comes up:
To ensure jobs for our future with secure, affordable, and reliable energy.
It barely passes with 79% of the Democrats voting against it.
Democats are willing to support attacking Tom Delay enough to shut Congress down. Willing to support the founding father of the Republican Party en masse ( I’m not sure I believe they even knew what they were voting on ). But, are totally unwilling to support ensuring jobs for our future with secure, affordable, and reliable energy.
That doesn’t play too well with me.
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