On May 9, 9:17=A0pm, "D.F. Manno" <dfma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Yep, 178 Republicans voted against a Mother's Day resolution. From the
> Wa****ngton Post's Dana Milbank's blog:
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> > =8A 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 sup****ting the goals and ideals of Mother's
> > Day," when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest.
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> > "Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote," he announced.
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> > Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), who has two young daughters, moved
> > to table Tiahrt's request, setting up a revote. This time, 178
> > Republicans cast their votes against mothers.=8A
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> > House Minority Leader John Boehner, asked yesterday to explain
> > why he and 177 of his colleagues switched their votes,
> > answered: "Oh, we just wanted to make sure that everyone was on
> > record in sup****t of Mother's Day."
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> > By voting against it? =8A
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<http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR200805
> 0802999.html?hpid=3Dnews-col-blog>
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> or <http://tinyurl.com/3egjos>
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> Even the original sponsor of the bill voted against mothers.
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> That's going to be real popular at Republican homes on Sunday.
I doubt that there will be any real fallout from this, but it does
make one wonder what they were thinking. Or rather, we know what they
were thinking: they had gone into reflexive stall mode, without
thinking about the actual bill.
Richard R. Hershberger
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