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27 GOP Senators 'Disapprove' Of Their Own Vote To Raise Debt Ceiling
Twenty-seven Republican senators voted with Democrats on Oct. 16 to lift the debt ceiling and avert a catastrophic default. And each one of those 27 senators voted Tuesday to "disapprove" of their own votes.
The vote Tuesday was a symbolic "resolution to disapprove" of the debt limit hike. It was mandated by the deal thanks to a last-minute provision inserted by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The motion failed 45-54 because all Democrats opposed it.
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Full article with LIST of the 27 GOPers here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/27-gop-senators-disapprove-of-their-own-vote-on-the-debt-ceiling
Skinner
(63,645 posts)What a joke.
valerief
(53,235 posts)They are basically saying, well, We suck.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)BainsBane
(53,003 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)ailsagirl
(22,840 posts)ailsagirl
(22,840 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)Evidently that's only bad if it's a Dem saying it.
UCmeNdc
(9,589 posts)and wonder who in the world voted for them.
Javaman
(62,442 posts)republican gasbag from the great state of delusion says: I can not and will not support anything I have previous said because while I'm contradicting myself, I find that my comments are completely uncalled for and without basis. Now having said that, this is what I meant to say, VOTE FOR ME!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)JBoy
(8,021 posts)politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)They want a 'record' of having opposed raising the debt ceiling without actually voting in a way which would have caused the US to default. They're hoping that their base will be too busy watching Honey Boo Boo to notice.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts). . . The 27 Senators were for raising the debt ceiling until the were against it?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)onyourleft
(726 posts)Nope. We are not really surprised by this are we? Just more babbling from the right.
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)Are they aware we have acual issues that require their time and attention?
This has become the most dysfunctional government ever. It is fucking embarrassing to be a US citizen anymore.
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)on many points of merit for my pro negative vote. I hope I have made my position clear. Now lets get on to more important matters, such as investigating the scandalous ACA website failure, and lets not forget Benghazi and I might like add to touch on some of the scandals regarding the Duck Dynasty.
ourfuneral
(150 posts)...for every single time in my life that I've said, or even thought, "Why can't women just make up their minds?"
niyad
(112,435 posts)ourfuneral
(150 posts)niyad
(112,435 posts)mmmp
ourfuneral
(150 posts)our avatars shall be as one!
kairos12
(12,817 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)will the tea party have show trials for those who actually approve of governing, too?
I cannot freaking believe this is a party that thinks it should have control of one of the most powerful nations in the world.
...or that they kowtow to the idiots who just cost this nation millions.
The Republican Party needs to go away.
Let the moderates combine with conservative democrats and let liberals form the Democratic Party.
Otherwise we'll keep getting bullshit like this.
niyad
(112,435 posts)tclambert
(11,080 posts)Zambero
(8,954 posts)If Kerry hadn't been for something before he was against it, then all these poor misguided senators would not have flip-flopped en masse as a result of his poor example!
Exactly
karynnj
(59,475 posts)He voted for a version that "paid" for the supplemental budget by rolling back the tax cuts on the the top % - and than against the version that added it to the debt.
I understand your joke, but think it ironic given the Republican faux horror of the debt that the true difference in the two versions has rarely been thrown back at the Republicans. (Barney Frank did that - even better - by speaking of being less responsible for the debt because he voted against the tax cuts and the war.)
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Comedy Central can do no better.
rpannier
(24,304 posts)It makes almost no sense.
I guess they're hoping to have their tea and drink it to or something like that
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Mr. Joe W. Armstrong holds the United States patent on a device for a, "User-Operated Amusement Apparatus for Kicking the User's Buttocks."