Republicans Vote Against Moms; No Word Yet on Puppies, Kittens | Washington Post | 9.05.2008
It was already shaping up to be a difficult year for congressional Republicans. Now, on the cusp of Mother's Day, comes this: A majority of the House GOP has voted against motherhood. On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, "Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day," when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest. "Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote," he announced.
On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, "Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day," when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest.
"Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote," he announced.
It has long been the custom to compare a popular piece of legislation to motherhood and apple pie. Evidently, that is no longer the standard. Worse, Republicans are now confronted with a John Kerry-esque predicament: They actually voted for motherhood before they voted against it.
Course, we can wonder why the Democrats didn't do this when they were the minority, but then we could expect the media to be all over un-patriotic liberal socialist democrats messing up the town, and it isn't even their town.
But IOKIYAR and the tradmed havne't even got the awareness of how blatantly partizan they are. And the Dems are stupid enough to go on Fox and say "yes, Bill we are awful, except we who are rich, god bless us" keep to the Fen Causeway
BTW, I wondered why the original vote was 412-0, so I checked the rollcall. Ron Paul did not vote, so presumably was absent. While I disagree with almost all of his politics, I have a grudging admiration for someone who consistently votes against every meaningless proclamation like this.
