Nye, Perriello Vote Against House Adjournment
By Shaun Kenney | Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 | PoliticsSmart move by the Dems. They take their seats that are on the bubble, vote against adjournment, and they can go back to their districts to say how they voted to stay in Washington to have a vote on extending the tax cuts.
And since it went down 210-209, every vote mattered.
Smart move…
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Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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8 Responses to "Nye, Perriello Vote Against House Adjournment"
This is one of the more cynical moves the House Dems have pulled this year.
On a procedural vote like this, the vote tally should fall along party lines. That 39 Democrats – all of them vulnerable – should vote no on this procedural motion is unthinkable in any normal situation.
So why did it happen? Simple: Pelosi, Hoyer, and Clyburn let the most vulnerable folks vote no and browbeat the rest in voting yes. That way Connolly and his ilk can go home and claim they both bucked the leadership and that they wanted to vote on the Bush tax cuts and were overruled by the rest of those nasty liberals.
It’s all a sham. They deserve no credit for voting against adjournment.
You have to give credit where credit is due. Kudos to Majority Whip James Clyburn to pull-off the most politically transparent move in the 111th Congress.
Seriously. He’s no Lyndon Johnson.
too little too late for Perriello. His horrible votes indicate what he thinks of America entrepreneurship, capitalism & freedom.
@kelley — totally agree, too little too late (and too slick). If either one brings it up on the campaign trail, feel free to play whack-a-mole.
Incidentally, this is just one more instance of how little the Democratic leadership really thinks of the American people. I mean, did they really think we’re that dumb? (scratch that — they caught the GOP on “motions to recommit” in 2006… so the proof might be in the pudding)
We’ll see if this comes up in Nye and Periello ads in the next five weeks. Anyone want to bet?
Ha, shocking how they correlate so well to yesterday’s poll numbers:
2nd Rigell: 48.6% Nye: 34.5% (NYE voted NO)
5th Hurt: 51.1% Perriello: 34.7% (PERRIELLO voted NO)
9th Griffith: 39.7% Boucher: 42.6% (BOUCHER voted YES)
11th Fimian: 42.2% Connolly: 36.7% (CONNOLLY voted NO)
Tonight’s homework may be to dig up other poll numbers for outside VA…
No more needs to be said here, the breakdown of what happened is obvious. Do we want leaders who resort to cheap political and procedural tricks or do we want leaders with demonstrated integrity and leadership experience? Nye has no backbone, and thus cannot stand up for the 2nd district. His time has come.
So Nye has voted with Pelosi 82.8% of the time instead of 83. Nye is such a punk. He will unemployed and unemployable in January.
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