🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <38r4bc$ee4@news.onramp.net>, cnelson@onramp.net writes:

> 	The last time I checked the Democrats were still
> the majority party in Congress. I wonder why there were so many
> close votes during this session. Anything who watchs CSPAN can

Let me let you in on a "dirty little secret" the Democrats don't want you
to know.  They count the votes beforehand for the controversial votes.
Then they let the "excess" votes go the other way in order for certain
Congressmen to be able to go home and tell their constituents that they
voted against bill XXX (they rotate this around on different votes.)  That
is why many votes look closer than they really are.  Remember that when
YOUR Democrat Congressmen touts his "opposition" to liberal policies.
In many cases, YOUR Democrat Congressman would have voted WITH the
liberal Congressional leadership if his vote had been needed to win!
By the way, this trick is NOT new.  It has been used regularly for many
years.

This trick is more easily seen when it fails.  On a few controversial bills
where the Democrat leadership just couldn't get enough votes to pass them,
the bill suddenly loses 20, 30 or more votes as the more moderate or
conservative Democrats jump ship en masse.


                                                Jim Pritchett


UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp             "For with God nothing shall
                                                be impossible."   Luke 1:37