New Childish Republican Obstruction: Refusing To Use Their Assigned Cards In Order To Delay Vote

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In September, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) had noticed Republicans House lawmakers intentionally forgetting or losing their voting cards in order to delay votes. Starting late in the summer, Grayson said he saw 60-70 GOP congressmen engaging in this tactic:

GRAYSON: They’d all walk to the front of the House and, laughingly and jokingly, put their arms around each other’s shoulder like it was some kind of clownish fun. And they did this over and over to make sure every vote took half an hour. That’s how low things have gotten. I could give you countless examples just like that. They’re simply obstructionists and there’s nothing you can do about it.
http://thinkprogress.org/

Assholes.
I wish there was some way to move the vote without them.

[derby378]

1. Why not just shut down voting after 15-20 minutes?

That means all of those Republicans will officially be credited as "Not Voting" for all their constituents to see.

[quiet.american]

2. Reading about stuff like this makes my blood boil.

The GOP pulls childish nonsense like this, then they stand in front of the C-Span cameras, looking somber (especially Man-Tan) and professing to be acting and speaking on behalf of "a majority of the American people."

[felinetta]

3. These are the people that always questioned our patriotism. And demanded that

President Obama wear a flag pin during the campaign.  Ever see
McCain, Palin, etc wear one? I can't stand their hypocrisy and
lack of respect for Americans needing health care reform.  
 

[felinetta]

4. I'm still trying to figure out what there is to like about these Republicans.

[Tippy]

5. So called .......leaders like Reagan encouraged this behavior.......

In 1981, Reagan declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."

He convinced millions of Americans that the threats they faced were: African-American welfare queens, Central American leftists, a rapidly expanding Evil Empire based in Moscow, and the do-good federal government.

Reagan pushed for deregulation of industries, including banking; he slashed income taxes for the wealthiest Americans in an experiment known as "supply side"

Many still argue that Reagan should be hailed as a great President because he "won the Cold War," However, a strong case can be made that the Cold War was won well before Reagan arrived in the White House.

We can trace wedge issues back to Reagan, his administration used them to deepen grivences, of white men who were encouraged to see themselves as victims of reverse discrimination


Unprecedented greed was unleashed on Wall Street, bonds between company owners and employees, became almost non existant.

Before Reagan, corporate CEOs earned less than 50 times the salary of an average worker. By the end of the Reagan-Bush-I administrations in 1993, the average CEO salary was more than 100 times that of a typical worker. By the end of the Bush-II administration, that CEO-salary figure was more than 250 times that of an average worker

Many other trends set during the Reagan era continued to erode the political process.. After 9/11, for instance, the neocons reemerged as a dominant force, reprising their "perception management" tactics, depicting the "war on terror" – like the last days of the Cold War – as a terrifying conflict between good and evil.

The hyping of the Islamic threat mirrored the neocons' exaggerated depiction of the Soviet menace in the 1980s – and again the propaganda strategy worked. Many Americans let their emotions run wild, from the hunger for revenge after 9/11 to the war fever over invading Iraq.