Gonzo cloture vote: my partner says I'm a bad influence

[radfringe]

with a wry smirk on her face...

she's not into politics, steadfastly maintains it's all bullsh*t and it's always politics before people.

yesterday afternoon I was watching the Gonzo no-confidence debate wind down, my partner asks if we had to watch this, I said I just want to see how the cloture votes turns out and then explained what cloture was. She then asked how I thought it would go - told her I didn't expect cloture to pass, that the vote would be pretty much along party lines.

as we watched Senators milling about, she would point to one and ask who he/she was, republic or democratic or ask if so-n-so has voted yet. There was the initial rush to vote by a handful, the clerk read the names and votes. Then individual senators were voting one at a time.

As the name was called, I started saying how I thought they would vote before the clerk said it. My partner joined in... and we made comments as we did.

"should be over soon" I said

"It's scary" my partner replied

me: "Why?"

partner: "Because I know alot of the names, their party affiliations and how they will vote..." then with a smirk -- "You are a bad influence."

then she went into her tirad about politics being bullsh*t, and the entire debate/vote was useless..

I pointed out that I didn't think it was entirely useless - by not voting for cloture the republics showed they still stand behind their rubberstamps and bush. Republics are also concerned about their re-(s)election. If cloture had passed, then they would have had to vote yes or no on the no-confidence issue. This would put them on the record one way or the other and it could help or hurt them in '08.

By voting "not to vote" they managed to stay on the fence and leaves them technically uncommitted and exposes a hypocrisy of their previous demands over the past 7 years of "up or down" votes. Essentially they cut and ran from making a decision, and by refusing to proceed to the actual no-confidence vote it could be characterized as standing with bush and brandishing their rubberstamps.

[janx]

1. Based on the last paragraph of your post,

it seems that your partner has a point about politics being bullsh*t...! ;-)