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To Get Hillary and Barack Back, the Senate Will Not Start Its Day Till 5pm
April 23, 2008 10:15 AM
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He has scheduled a cloture vote so the senate can move to a bill that democrats badly want. It corrects what they call blatant pay discrimination against women. To move to the bill, Reid needs 60 votes. To have any chance of getting 60 votes, Reid also needs Hillary and Barack.
Republican leader Mitch McConnell doesn't like the bill. He says it will saddle small and big businesses with tons of law suits. According to CQ TODAY Senate rules say the procedural vote to go to the pay discrimination bill has to take place AN HOUR AFTER the senate convenes. Reid tried to get the Republicans to waive that rule so the senate could come in this morning and continue working on a veterans' bill. The republicans objected.
So to get Hillary and Barack back by 6pm, the senate will come in at 5pm and do no business on the floor before then.
April 23, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (3)
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Betty, what you are completely ignoring is that maybe not everyone believes in Barack as you do. What I'm taking from your lengthy letter is that someone should be "put" into the White House for one reason or another, as opposed to "elected". It simply does not work that way. There are any number of black politicians, male and female, who I would vote for - but it wouldn't be because they are black, it would be because they are highly qualified. Oh, and I am a white guy.
Posted by: Ron B | Apr 23, 2008 11:36:55 AM
First, as to the vote in teh Senate, I'm glad to see the Dems including Obama and Hillary fighting together for all of us.
But as to your call for a boycott, I'm first a Hillary supporter and only secondly not voting for Obama or McCain. Not Obama because his entire past is radical. Maybe you like that, maybe that's mainstream for majority of AA, I don't know and don't care, but I'm not voting to put a friend of the Weathermen Underground leaders and on the take from a Syrian Antoin Rezko who financed Obama's house with money from the Saddam bagman Auchi. Not to mention what passes for an African church and pastor in Rev. Wright.
That may be your culture, and you may be fine with it, as 92% of AA voting for Obama attest to, but it isn't fine with me. I'll not vote for Obama, and I won't vote for more of the same with McCain. I'll vote for Hillary if she's on the ballot and write her name in if she isn't.
Now if Hillary wasn't running, and Colin Powell was, then I'd be voting for Powell. And if Ayers, who is white, was running, I wouldn't vote for him, same as Obama.
I expect lots of people not voting from one camp if the other camp gets the nomination. It's the leftists against the moderates against the neocons. So you won't be the last one who doesn't want to support the other side.
And maybe McCain wins that way and we just continue on down the drain. Whatever. At least have the decency not to put someone whose past is interconnected wiuth Chicago radicals up for election as President of our country if you want most Americans to vote for them, whatever race or gender they are.
Having said that, I saw Obama's speech in Indiana last night and it was a very good heart felt speech. He's a good person, just doesn't have a history I want for our leader. I would vote for him as VP with Hillary and in eight years he would have the history and record that we could all stand behind for Obama as President.
Hillary '08
Posted by: rd | Apr 23, 2008 12:05:47 PM
Just to clarify, I saw Hillary's speech in Philly and Obama's speech in Indiana on Fox News Channel last night.
Hillary '08
Posted by: rd | Apr 23, 2008 12:13:04 PM
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