GOP kills liberal efforts to fund auto-execs

On December 11, 2008 the United States Senate voted down the Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 7005 (Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008 ) which would have been weighted down with earmarks to provide the $14 or 15 billion that the liberal Democrats and President Bush wanted to give to the auto industry and their labor unions; the Republicans, except for 10 RINO’s and 8 weak-kneed wusses who did not even care to vote (see below) kept the motion from passing.

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This legislation failed by a 52 in favor and 35 against vote as a total of 60 votes were necessary to pass. If this makes you feel comfortable that the liberals will not be able to get other obnoxious and/or dangerous to the country, don’t count on it. True, 60 votes in the Senate are almost always difficult to obtain, regardless of the merits of the subject matter especially when both parties will almost always have defectors who disagree with the proposed legislation; Republicans for the most part. The liberals needed just 8 more votes to get the measure passed, and considering that 4 Democrat senators voted NO and 4 more Democrat senators chose not to vote for reasons I was unable to determine. That would have been just enough to get the bill passed. But there were 10 RINO’s (Republicans In Name Only) who voted with the liberals for passage of the motion for cloture in order to presumably vote also for the passage of the unfair method of providing bailout relief to the auto industry in contradiction to the wishes of over 70 percent of the American taxpayers. And even worse, 8 Republican senators were too pre-occupied with other “important” business to bother to cast their vote at all. If only ALL of the Republicans would have voted and done so in the negative, the cloture motion would have failed by a vote 42 to 53, (which included 4 Democrat votes) a resounding defeat providing proof to the American people that the Republicans were ones voting with their wishes in mind; Now THAT would have provided the needed comfort zone that unsavory liberal legislative proposal fires could be stomped out before they could even kindle. But with people like Bond, MO; Brownback, KS; Collins, ME; Dole, NC; Domenici, NM; Lugar, IN; Snowe, ME; Specter, PA; Voinovich, OH; and Warner, VA, all undependable and more RINO than Republican who vote with liberal Democrats an unsavory number times, you can’t depend on good things happening for the conservative American people. In addition, other 8 Republican senators who chose not to even bother to cast their votes, Alexander, TN; Cornyn, TX; Craig, ID; Graham, SC; Hagel, NE; Smith, OR; Stevens, AK; Sununu, NH does not portend good vibes for the future votes for Republicans in the Senate. While I am about it, I think it would be proper to recognize the Democrats who felt that this measure was against the wishes of a majority of the American people and voted accordingly, helping to insure its demise. Those 4 were: Baucus, MT; Lincoln, AR; Reid, NV; Tester, MT (yes that Reid was Harry, the Senate Majority Leader!). The 4 Democrats who did not vote probably would have approved of the measure had they been there to vote; Biden, DE; Kennedy, MA; Kerry, MA; and Wyden, OR. But once again, as this column is being written, Bush is telling the majority of Americans who do not want a bailout for the auto industry that he doesn’t care what the majority wants, he is going to see that the labor unions and auto execs get your tax dollars to continue their wasteful and spendthrift ways.

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