Today Senator Roy Blunt (r) voted for the House budget plan to end Medicare, probably because he doesn’t have to face reelection until 2016 and he thinks most people will forget.
Question: On the Motion to Proceed (Motion to Proceed to Consider H. Con. Res. 34 )
Vote Number: 77 Vote Date: May 25, 2011, 05:22 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Motion to Proceed Rejected
Vote Counts: YEAs 40
NAYs 57
Not Voting 3Blunt (R-MO), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Nay
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Well, Claire, the House republicans provided you with a convenient club for 2012. Here’s hoping you use it.
Oh, look who else voted against ending Medicare:
Brown (R-MA), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Nay
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Paul (R-KY), Nay
Snowe (R-ME), Nay
Okay, Rand Paul shouldn’t count. He voted against it because it didn’t go far enough. That’s just insane.
And this, via Twitter:
@NancyPelosi Nancy Pelosi
Day after voters sent an unmistakable message they reject House #GOP bill to end Medicare & cut benefits, Senate GOP voted for it. 19 minutes ago
Do we sense a little Twitter spin here?:
@RoyBlunt Senator Roy Blunt
Voted today to continue debate on the plans introduced by @SenToomey & House GOP b/c they represented good starting pts in this debate. 1 hour ago
A “good starting point”? That’ll make a great campaign commercial don’t you think?
Overlord Ashcroft decreed it to be “bad”. Not to mention Roy and the rest of his klan are sleazebags. I wonder if he got free smokes for life as a wedding gift as his blushing bride’s dowry
I say, don’t put it past him – he told some whoppers in his last campaign.
Senator Roy Blunt is the epitome of those pushing the radical republican agenda. He will never do anything but walk in lockstep with the other republican lap dogs! Just show ’em the money!
But hey, even the money, Carl Rove and the Chamber of Commerce couldn’t do it for them in New Yorks 26th district. Thank you Ms. Hochul and of course, Paul Ryan.