The vote that was 237-138-18 was the vote to table the motion to reconsider. In other words, the Republican bloc that voted against that was voting FOR reopening debate so they could all individually say “Go Mom.” The Democratic bloc was voting to move onto other business since the bill had already passed unanimously.

The unanimous vote on the bill was never reconsidered, and therefore is on the records as having passed unanimously.

Oh goody, goody. I can’t wait.

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Yes, Republicans are pulling all sorts of crap in the House right now, and deserve to be called out on it, but this post is flat out wrong.

Drill down into the transcripts if you want to better understand what’s going on: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r110:6:./temp/~r1105MXOOq::

We don’t know why the motion to reconsider was made in the first place because it’s not in your video.

The again, maybe they always hated their mothers

Yeah, I hate their mothers too Their mothers should have beat the arrogance out of them

This would bring the cost to a whopping THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS!

What I don’t understand is why any Congress critter would vote against a simple bill that says Congress applauds your contribution to our society.

Well maybe a bill honoring Charles Manson ?

They’re pro-life AND against medical care.

They’re pro-torture AND they want to make life on earth as miserable as possible for as many as possible (well, at least there’s some consistency here).

- Average Salary of a Congressperson: $160,000

- Average Days Worked: 150

- Average floor time for a bill (based on what my idiot Rep Kirk’s office told me and this is excluding time to write the bill): 5-15 minutes – I will use 10 minutes

- Number of bills affected this week (From the Library of Congress Thomas site): 37

Total wasted tax payer money: $357,666 in playing games to get their war funding.

This is a silly post. I ask you SO WHAT? This is a ridiculous resolution and a waste of time. In the meantime an illegal occupation costing billions of dollars continues.

I can’t speak for TP, but I think the purpose of posting this thread was not to show how much the Republican Party hates the mothers of those who lost their lives in this illegal, immoral, unnecessary war, but to show how far the Republican Party will go to get their funding for this illegal, immoral, unnecessary war.

If that is the goal of this money-wasting, time-wasting, credibility-destroying tactic, then fine, let them do it. Just don’t ever bring any bill to the floor for a vote that includes any funding for the war in Iraq. Period. Blame the Republicans and say that the vote has to be rescheduled every time they pull one of these stunts.

Why do people vote to send Republicans to government, when they see their entire purpose in life as being to show that government doesn’t work? And why doesn’t it work? Because Republicans keep trying to thwart any good that it might be able to do. Then they pat themselves on the back and say, “See? We were right. Government doesn’t work.” Hypocritical asswipes.

i have to remember that one… your friend is a gift!

“they’re against nuns too.”

Got that right!
It was Reagan’s own Contras that murdered nuns in Nicaragua and we all know how much the repugnicans revere Ronnie.