The Games people play

[skooldem1]

As I've said before both parties are full of it. All they do is play games. Its been said before that the debt ceiling has been raised many times before with no fanfare. Now it's so crucial for republicans to be against it. They have always voted for it. Why the turn around? Dems....oh my dems. Its armageddon huh? Look at this previous vote.


U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 2nd Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate


Vote Summary

Question: On the Joint Resolution [[H.J.Res.47 )
Vote Number: 54 Vote Date: March 16, 2006, 11:17 AM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Joint Resolution Passed
Vote Counts: YEAs 52
NAYs 48


Grouped By Vote Position

YEAs ---52
Alexander [[R-TN)
Allard [[R-CO)
Allen [[R-VA)
Bennett [[R-UT)
Bond [[R-MO)
Brownback [[R-KS)
Bunning [[R-KY)
Burr [[R-NC)
Chafee [[R-RI)
Chambliss [[R-GA)
Cochran [[R-MS)
Coleman [[R-MN)
Collins [[R-ME)
Cornyn [[R-TX)
Craig [[R-ID)
Crapo [[R-ID)
DeMint [[R-SC)
DeWine [[R-OH)
Dole [[R-NC)
Domenici [[R-NM)
Enzi [[R-WY)
Frist [[R-TN)
Graham [[R-SC)
Grassley [[R-IA)
Gregg [[R-NH)
Hagel [[R-NE)
Hatch [[R-UT)
Hutchison [[R-TX)
Inhofe [[R-OK)
Isakson [[R-GA)
Kyl [[R-AZ)
Lott [[R-MS)
Lugar [[R-IN)
Martinez [[R-FL)
McCain [[R-AZ)
McConnell [[R-KY)
Murkowski [[R-AK)
Roberts [[R-KS)
Santorum [[R-PA)
Sessions [[R-AL)
Shelby [[R-AL)
Smith [[R-OR)
Snowe [[R-ME)
Specter [[R-PA)
Stevens [[R-AK)
Sununu [[R-NH)
Talent [[R-MO)
Thomas [[R-WY)
Thune [[R-SD)
Vitter [[R-LA)
Voinovich [[R-OH)
Warner [[R-VA)

NAYs ---48
Akaka [[D-HI)
Baucus [[D-MT)
Bayh [[D-IN)
Biden [[D-DE)
Bingaman [[D-NM)
Boxer [[D-CA)
Burns [[R-MT)
Byrd [[D-WV)
Cantwell [[D-WA)
Carper [[D-DE)
Clinton [[D-NY)
Coburn [[R-OK)
Conrad [[D-ND)
Dayton [[D-MN)
Dodd [[D-CT)
Dorgan [[D-ND)
Durbin [[D-IL)
Ensign [[R-NV)
Feingold [[D-WI)
Feinstein [[D-CA)
Harkin [[D-IA)
Inouye [[D-HI)
Jeffords [[I-VT)
Johnson [[D-SD)
Kennedy [[D-MA)
Kerry [[D-MA)
Kohl [[D-WI)
Landrieu [[D-LA)
Lautenberg [[D-NJ)
Leahy [[D-VT)
Levin [[D-MI)
Lieberman [[D-CT)
Lincoln [[D-AR)
Menendez [[D-NJ)
Mikulski [[D-MD)
Murray [[D-WA)
Nelson [[D-FL)
Nelson [[D-NE)
Obama [[D-IL)
Pryor [[D-AR)
Reed [[D-RI)
Reid [[D-NV)
Rockefeller [[D-WV)
Salazar [[D-CO)
Sarbanes [[D-MD)
Schumer [[D-NY)
Stabenow [[D-MI)
Wyden [[D-OR)


http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00054

[ms_m]

You know Skool, I personally don't have a problem with games in Washington, it's call politics and the political games were happening before I was born and will continue to happen long after I'm dead. What I do have a problem with are the folks that play dirty. That would be the Rethugs, the folks who are willing to destroy this country all for the sake of bringing down one man.

It's not a secret that the debt ceiling has been raised since it's inception and it's not a secret politicians have voted no...but ONLY when they knew the votes were there to raise it. It's also no secret they have waited to the last minute to take this vote previously and no one, including voters batted an eye. Most probably didn't even pay attention and I include myself in that category.

It's also no secret that both parties share a hand in the state of our current economy. The President ONCE again admitted that in his town hall in Md. just recently. But it should be painfully obvious there is one side causing more damage than the other....one side playing more dirty tricks than the other and that's the side that holds the majority in the House. Without their votes nothing gets to the Senate or the desk of the President. Any ideas how to make that happen?

[stephanie]

Send Boehner back to the classroom and have him listen to the teacher!