ClydeCoulter
09-27-2013, 10:24 AM
Hot Air: Open Thread: Senate to hold cloture vote at 12:30 ET
Give your predictions there.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/09/27/open-thread-senate-to-hold-cloture-vote-at-1230-et-on-house-bill-defunding-obamacare/
There’ll be four votes today, the first of which is the big filibuster opportunity for Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, but don’t change the channel from C-SPAN 2 once that’s finished. The consolation prize for Republicans after a week of dispiriting internal squabbling is watching Mark Pryor, Kay Hagan, and the other Democratic incumbents from red states who are up for reelection next year have to bite the bullet on Reid’s amendment to re-fund ObamaCare. That vote, as well as a vote on final passage of the Senate CR, will follow the cloture vote, and all Reid needs is 51. He can afford to let three, and only three, Democrats vote no along with the Republicans, but that means someone’s going to be the odd man out. Pryor, Hagan, Mary Landrieu, Mark Begich, even Joe Manchin — who’s going to have to take one for the team in the White House and then try to explain to conservative voters in their home states why they did so?
Also, notice the political posturing. Good for them, bad for the people.
Give your predictions there.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/09/27/open-thread-senate-to-hold-cloture-vote-at-1230-et-on-house-bill-defunding-obamacare/
There’ll be four votes today, the first of which is the big filibuster opportunity for Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, but don’t change the channel from C-SPAN 2 once that’s finished. The consolation prize for Republicans after a week of dispiriting internal squabbling is watching Mark Pryor, Kay Hagan, and the other Democratic incumbents from red states who are up for reelection next year have to bite the bullet on Reid’s amendment to re-fund ObamaCare. That vote, as well as a vote on final passage of the Senate CR, will follow the cloture vote, and all Reid needs is 51. He can afford to let three, and only three, Democrats vote no along with the Republicans, but that means someone’s going to be the odd man out. Pryor, Hagan, Mary Landrieu, Mark Begich, even Joe Manchin — who’s going to have to take one for the team in the White House and then try to explain to conservative voters in their home states why they did so?
Also, notice the political posturing. Good for them, bad for the people.