More evidence that the Orange One needs to be removed. From TheDC (all emphasis mine).
Some conservatives were up in arms over a hurried Thursday vote on the so-called “doc fix” for Medicare, which some felt leadership tried to slip by them, after it passed in a thirty-second voice vote with very few members on the House floor.
The “doc fix” is a temporary patch to prevent a 24 percent cut to the amount of money the government pays doctors who take care of Medicare patients that is set to take effect on April 1 if congress does not move to prevent it. Owing to the tight deadline, leadership opted to bring the bill straight to the floor “under suspension of the rules,” meaning it needed a two-thirds vote to pass – a higher threshold than the normal simple majority. But it was not clear that a sufficient number of votes could be found. The bill is somewhat controversial – some lawmakers want to strike a deal for a more permanent solution, others, like Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, think the way the patch is paid for – which partly involves time shifting sequester cuts to Medicare from 2025 to 2024 and some consider is a “gimmick.”
But the potential to not get enough votes turned out not to be an issue. Instead, most members did not get to vote at all.
The Orange One took a page from Obozo, and the one that seems to constantly be in eye wide awe Pelosi, and ram through unpopular bills. Don’t bother debating it, just spend, spend, spend. For those Republicans that believe there’s not a big difference between the conservatives in the GOP and the “Establishment”, consider this another exhibit of what it means to be the Establishment. It means Big Gov just with an R behind it. (Go J.D.Winteregg. Please consider contributing to his campaign against the Orange One.)
Shortly after noon, the bill was passed by voice vote, with the chair – Republican Rep. Steve Womack – deciding that two-thirds of the very few members in the room had said “aye.” Most members were unaware the vote was taking place and missed it, as did quite a few reporters.
Some of the more conservative members on the Republican side, who were not necessarily going to vote for the fix, took issue with the way the vote was handled.
“I think they pulled a fast one,” Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, who had planned to vote against the temporary fix, told The Daily Caller. Huelskamp was in his office, getting ready to go over to the vote that he thought was going to happen in a few minutes, when he learned they had had a voice vote.
Leadership, he said, “misled conservatives and all of the Republican conference.”
He called the temporary doc fix a “gimmick,” and said passing it was “exactly what the republican leadership totally and honestly promised they were not going to do on this issue.”
Not a surprise. Can’t take the word from a man who is Unnaturally Orange. He either has an extreme carrot craving issue, or he’s takes too many naps in the tanning room. Either way, there’s a mental issue swirling in that hollow skull of his. Some deficiency in the Orange Melon that’s not snapping right. It’s probably why he cries all the time, he has a moment of clarity and realizes what a craven morally untethered buffoon he is before his faculties slip away into daydream delirium. Another clue he should be put away in the asylum (They still have those? No, I don’t thinks so, the Dems got rid of them if I reacll correctly. Probably because most of their voters were it’s occupants. Anyway, I’m sure there’s room at the DNC for one more loon.) (Go J.D.Winteregg. Please consider contributing to his campaign against the Orange One.)
“This has become the way they operate,” he said of party leadership, calling the vote “disappointing.”
Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert voiced his displeasure in a floor speech following the vote — calling the vote “a surprising twist. He likened the move to the way the House was run in 2007 and 2008 when Democrats had control, and when he would make sure to come back early from the weekend so he could be present to object or insist on a roll call vote if leadership tried to pass something in this manner.
Silly Louie, there ARE Democrats in control. Don’t be fooled by the R beside their name. If it looks like sh*t and smells like sh*t, it’s sh*t or a Democrat. (Go J.D.Winteregg. Please consider contributing to his campaign against the Orange One.)
“So I was very surprised today that with us in the majority, our own leadership in charge, something as important as the doctor fix would be brought to the floor on a voice vote,” Gohmert said.
“Now I know that I need to get with some other members and make sure we have people on the floor, since we won’t be sure what our own leadership is going to do,” he went on. “That’s very unfortunate. It’s unfortunate. You need to be able to trust your own leadership.”
You can’t. You can’t trust your own leadership. They’ll call you names and insults, mock you in the media and stab you in the back. That’s the establishments way. (Go J.D.Winteregg. Please consider contributing to his campaign against the Orange One.)
Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun was more blunt: “I consider it a step backwards for democracy,” he said in a statement to TheDC. “This Putin-esque behavior is an example of why I voted against Boehner as Speaker of the House.”
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“It’s disappointing and it shouldn’t have happened,” said Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador, in a statement to TheDC.
Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash had a similar take.
“Short on votes for controversial spending bill, so GOP & Dem leaders rammed it through by “voice vote” in empty House chamber. Not right,” Amash tweeted Thursday afternoon.
What an imprudent use of characters. When you’re tweeting you need to be frugal with the characters, Amash could have simply just said “leaders” because there’s very little difference, if any, between those “leaders” with Rs and D’s. Oddly, both at the very top of that steamy cauldron are physically disturbing to look at. One is Orange and the other always appears as if she’s “witnessing the docking of the Hindenburg” (h/t Dennis Miller). (Go J.D.Winteregg. Please consider contributing to his campaign against the Orange One.)
I’ve had enough, you can read the last few paragraphs here, where aides squirm and claim procedurally they were in the right, blah blah blah. The GOP leaders are gutless craven a$$holes. That’s all you need to know. (Go J.D.Winteregg. Please consider contributing to his campaign against the Orange One.)
