Partisanship and Filibusters: GOP Flip-​​Floppery

Daily Intel via ATTACKERMAN:

When the actual bill was voted on this morn­ing, it passed 70–28. Tennessee’s Lamar Alexan­der, Mississippi’s Thad Cochran, Oklahoma’s Jim Inhofe, Florida’s George LeMieux, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, and Mississippi’s Roger Wicker voted for the bill after try­ing, two days ago, to pre­vent it from being voted on at all.

It’s clear that the bills them­selves are not the under­ly­ing issue here. “Obstruc­tion­ism” makes sense, because let­ting Democ­rats pass their bills makes it look like Democ­rats have good ideas. The vote flip-​​flopping, how­ever, has got to be taken as proof that the Democ­rats’ bills are, in fact, so good that even Repub­li­cans can’t stand to be seen vot­ing against them.

28 February 2010 – 5:27 pm | By Benjamin Daniels | Posted in Politics | Tagged , , | Comments (177)