Forbes: Why Bernie Sanders Didn't Vote on the Senate Planned Parenthood Defunding Bill

[Omaha Steve]

Some ignorant trouble maker that makes up stuff said he was out campaigning in GD-P. Didn't Obama get elected with a history of often voting present?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenkilloran/2015/12/04/why-bernie-sanders-didnt-vote-on-the-senate-planned-parenthood-defunding-bill/

Ellen Killoran

The U.S. Senate voted 52-47 on Thursday to repeal key provisions of Obamacare including the removal of federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Only 99 of a possible 100 votes were cast — missing one Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), who earlier this week was hailed as a champion supporter of Planned Parenthood by way of an impassioned speech on the Senate floor.

In the wake of Friday’s deadly shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic, Sanders spoke out against “a witch hunt for an organization that provides critical health care services, from reproductive health care to cancer screenings and preventative services to millions of Americans.”

Earlier in his speech, Sanders expressed his disdain for the political machinery driving the proposed legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act:

“The bill we are debating today is a complete waste of time. This is just another reason why the American people have so little respect for the Congress. There are major crises facing our country, and the Republican leadership once again is attempting to repeal Obamacare…. Obama is not going to sign a bill repealing Obamacare. I think that is not likely to happen.”

FULL story at link.

[davidpdx]

1. We should't wait for the ignorant troublemakers to acknowledge their stupidity

They are too busy creating new bullshit memes.

[artislife]

2. I hate that they won't take into account, context

Context in almost anything.

It is a very Noun verb object world over there.

I like to see the full language, you know, adverbs, adjectives, qualifiers, accusative, conditional, gerund...etc etc.

[Autumn]

3. This is the reason he wasn't there to vote

“By the time of the final vote, Sanders had a plane to catch for New Hampshire,”

Let them post crap we know the score. It's not like he has a private jet waiting for him.

[smokey nj]

4. Both Clinton and Obama had horrendous attendance records while they were running in 2008.

The 2008 Democrats missed a lot of votes in the primaries. McCain missed almost every vote in the general.

In 2008, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden both missed between 75 and 85 percent of the floor votes about a year away from the general election (10 to 13 months), which is where we’re at now. Obama missed nearly 90 percent, but that came down to 37 percent the following quarter.

But there’s one reason Rubio may have called out John McCain specifically in defending his record: The Arizona senator missed nearly every single vote in the final seven months of his campaign.

Meanwhile, after Biden dropped out, he only missed 4.7 percent of votes in the following quarter; after Clinton lost the primary, she missed just 14.9 percent.


http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/2/9645384/rubio-missing-votes

[Autumn]

5. The manufactured outrage of the day.

That's all they have