Why did House members change their votes on the MakeOilmenRicher bill?

[valerief]

Are they impatient and say, "Oh, the hell with it! I'll change my vote." Or were they given an offer they couldn't refuse?

I don't understand their lack of resolve.

[ewagner]

1. Offer they couldn't refuse.

That's how they operate.

[valerief]

2. Thanks. I thought it was threats that got stuff done.

[rvgwinn]

4. I watched part of it,

And to think these infants run our Country!

[Debi]

3. Tommy-the-Hammer would've spanked them if they didn't

Who wants to get spanked by a man who's about to go to prison?

[stillcool]

5. Check out this headline...

Reuters: Delay, Barton, Hastert and Blunt circled the chamber during vote:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5003033

[valerief]

6. Thanks for the link

Why do they bother voting at all if brute force always wins out anyway? I think House members should live in a Safe House during their term so that their votes are protected.

[stillcool]

7. Drive-by voting only?

so frigging ridiculous...

[valerief]

9. Not ridiculous in a Christo-Fascist State

Hey, even the Pope wears a bullet-proof bubble on his car (or one of the infallibles did, anyway).

[BlueCaliDem]

8. So much for the Delay-Stepping-Aside Sham! N/T