Think Progress » Republicans vote against Mother’s Day.
Think Progress » Republicans vote against Mother’s Day.
Seriously.
This is what the Republicans in the House have become. First they raise a bill about how great Moms are, and then it’s unanimously passed earlier in the week, and then somehow they bring it up for vote recount, and then they vote against it. For some reason.
I mean the overall reason is because they’re stalling. They’re pissed they don’t have control of the House and now the mortgage bill and the war apprpriations bill has been pushed to next week. I think they consider this a “win”. But after all that, why even vote against a fluff timewaster at all? Why not just ring up another unanimous vote?
Maybe they’ve had a change of heart and decided they don’t like moms anyway. Hell, they’ve already voted against nuns, maybe next week they’ll pass HR1157, “Finding adorable, precocious orphans shining shoes on the corner and taking their money and pushing them in the mud.”
edit: Oh, okay, I get it. They had the original vote, then Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.) had a motion to reconsider the vote. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) moved to table his revote request, which itself needed a vote, and that’s the one that the Republicans voted against. So it seems like sloppy reporting to this point, I mean, they didn’t vote against mothers exactly. Irritating that I had to go make sense out of that myself.
May 12th, 2008 22:05
I thought the reason we had a day called Mother’s Day was so that we could recognize how great moms are ON THAT DAY, not waste time having a vote on it in Congress.
Or maybe it was for the Hallmark cards?
But in all seriousness, Congress should have a vote about how they shouldn’t waste time voting on stupid things no one will argue.