There IS ALWAYS an asshole….
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) confirmed he will ask for a roll-call vote on the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill being debated Friday on the House floor, despite fiery denunciations of his actions from President Trump and other officials.
Massie’s decision has forced many House lawmakers to return to Washington, since his decision to ask for a roll-call vote prevents the bill from being passed on a voice vote. Lawmakers wanted to avoid having lawmakers converge on Washington, largely because of the fear of the spreading coronavirus.
The libertarian-leaning conservative took to Twitter to announce he would request a quorum, which would require 218 members to be present. Leadership sources say they believe they have enough lawmakers needed to pass the bill via voice vote.
“I swore an oath to uphold the constitution, and I take that oath seriously,” Massie wrote on Twitter. “In a few moments I will request a vote on the CARES Act which means members of Congress will vote on it by pushing ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or ‘present.’….
image….Greg Nash
(1) If you want to look professional, you should avoid headlines like this
(2) In relation to your two posts here:
https://politicaldog101.com/2020/03/senate-passes-2-trillion-bill-phase-iii-stimulus-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-42164
There is no Sen. Brendan Buck; there probably never had been (although I haven’t checked) — Brendan Buck was the source you were citing. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky is the person, I assume, to whom you were referring; and he isn’t (yet) in the Senate — he might make an even worse successor to Henry Clay, John Sherman Cooper and Thruston B. Morton than Jim Bunning or Mitch McConnell.
Anyway this is moot, anyway, since the bill passed on a voice vote; I believe you need a fifth of the Senators to force a roll call.
My mistake was in the comment no the post….
My apologies
Payback could be a bitch….
“Top Republicans warned Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) that he was sabotaging his career. Supercharged fundraising numbers in his GOP primary race show they may have been on to something.” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The Kentucky Republican, who angered President Trump when he forced House members to return to D.C. to pass the $2 trillion stimulus bill, is now back home in Garrison, Ky., fighting to stay in Congress ahead of the state’s June primary. Lawmakers of both parties called him reckless, and President Trump termed him a ‘third rate Grandstander’ and said he should be kicked out of the GOP.”
Said Massie: “I thought I might be signing my political death sentence. But I did it for principled reasons.”
Politicalwire…
“Principled reasons” my ass. He did to get attaboys from right wing nut jobs on FOX News and conservative websites and it failed.
Fuck’m….
Never been a fan of Massie, and this will probably cost him his seat, but I don’t agree with that premise at all.
Nobody on the right praised him beyond a fringe of Paul fanatics. He was roundly criticized for endangering the health of his colleagues by making them travel, etc.
He did feel he was acting on “principle”, but should probably have considered the implications of being so quixotic on something that was already going to happen.
I said he *thought* the right wing crazies would come to his defense and to their “credit” they did not.
I don’t think he did or cared, but no, they didn’t. They will side with Trump over him anyway.
Yes a good AMOUNT WILL…
What is remarkable is that the Trump campaign is trying to take legal action to prevent Jeff Sessions’ desperate Senate campaign from talking about Trump.
Sessions is of course praising Trump and expressing his agreement with him in his ads. Whatever one thinks of that, it is perfectly and completely legal and yet Trump thinks he can get the courts to prevent it because he has a personal vendetta against Sessions.
The Cult is always threaten to “sue.”
The other night The unofficial propaganda “minister” Sean Hannity was threatening to “sue” the other networks .
His grandstanding should cost him his job…