Dana Milbank of the Washington Post:
It was already shaping up to be a difficult year for congressional Republicans. Now, on the cusp of Mother's Day, comes this: A majority of the House GOP has voted against motherhood.It was mainly to prevent the Democrats from getting anything done. Nice. After the shit the Republicans pulled when they were the majority, it's strange to see them whining about how unfair the Democrats are.
On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, "Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day," when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest.
"Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote," he announced.
Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), who has two young daughters, moved to table Tiahrt's request, setting up a revote. This time, 178 Republicans cast their votes against mothers.
It has long been the custom to compare a popular piece of legislation to motherhood and apple pie. Evidently, that is no longer the standard. Worse, Republicans are now confronted with a John Kerry-esque predicament: They actually voted for motherhood before they voted against it.
Republicans, unhappy with the Democratic majority, have been using such procedural tactics as this all week to bring the House to a standstill, but the assault on mothers may have gone too far. House Minority Leader John Boehner, asked yesterday to explain why he and 177 of his colleagues switched their votes, answered: "Oh, we just wanted to make sure that everyone was on record in support of Mother's Day."
By voting against it?
5 comments:
not for nothing, but why is congress even wasting their time voting on this at all (they did it during the xmas holiday as well) ---
be that as it may -- i so hope people use this against them -- there is nothing worse than a republican anything these days
My Repub Congresscritter voted against mothers, did yours, or are you one of those who aren't required to suffer the ignominy of being represented by the GOP?
Representative? GOP? I thought that in their case, the abbreviation "Rep." stood for Reprehensible.
Dcap, these kinds of votes are so stupid and meaningless but Congress votes on them diligently. (Look, we ARE doing something!)
That said, the Republicans have made themselves look really really retarded... which now-a-days is not too hard.
Bryan, my representative is David Dreier, the good foot soldier in Bush's blunders, and of course he voted nay.
Steve, doesn't everyone want a retarded representative? A reprehensible retarded politician? They have no souls and sell themselves to anybody!
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