Reid Corners The Republicans - Unbelievable

[lame54]

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/7/24/112537/967

Last week, we learned that Senate Majority Leader Reid would be collecting various bills "held" by Tom Coburn and combining them into one package - forcing Senate Republicans to either vote with the needs of their constituents on good legislation...or sacrifice themselves out of loyalty to one colleague's obstructionism.

And since many of the bills were bipartisan, quite a few Republican Senators will find themselves in the awkward position of either voting for the legislation they introduced, or selling out their constituencies to play politics and vote with Coburn.

Here, in no particular order, is a list of such Senators, and the legislation they partnered on:


Senator Thad Cochran - introduced - Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act (S. 999/HR 477)
Sen. Christopher S. Bond - introduced - Vision Care for Kids Act (HR 507/S. 1117)

Sen. Sam Brownback- introduced- Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act (S. 1810/HR 3112)

Sen Domenici, Pete V - introduced - Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act (S. 2304/HR 3992)

Sen Vitter, David - introduced - Enhancing the Effective Prosecution of Child Pornography (S. 2869/HR 4136)

Sen Lugar, Richard G. - introduced - Reconstruction and Stabilization Civilian Management Act (HR 1084/S. 613)

Sen Coleman, Norm - introduced - Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act (HR 1678/S. 840)

Sen Stevens, Ted - introduced - Ocean Exploration, Mapping & Research (HR 1834/HR 2400/S. 39)

Sen Snowe, Olympia J. - introduced - Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act (S. 950/HR 2342)

Sen Voinovich, George V. - introduced - Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 2008 (S. 496)

Coburn blocked every one of those bills - and every one of them will be in Reid's package next week.

[Inuca]

1. Coburn is slightly insane n/t

[katandmoon]

2. Coburn must not have anything on Reid

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Any reason Coburn blocked all these bills?

[annabanana]

6. to broker favors. . . . n/t

[Dissent Is Patriotic]

4. This is only going to help the Republicans. This is exactly what

they want now. I am sick.

[lame54]

5. how is it going to help the republicans

[Vickers]

7. Huh?

:shrug:

Maybe I'm just stupid, but can you elaborate?

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. How do you figure that?

I don't follow you.

[Historic NY]

9. Its not helping them its making them look like morons, if they reject it.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000002924355

<snip>
Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin , D-Ill., said Democratic leaders were optimistic that enough Republicans would be swayed by the popularity of the omnibus bill’s components to allow it to pass.

“If you want to oppose this package, you’re opposing a lot of things, including things that most Americans believe overwhelmingly should be part of our law — to protect against child pornography, to deal with the drug problem in our country, to try to find runaway children, to prosecute those who are guilty of civil rights crimes,” Durbin said.

It would be easy for an opponent to make campaign use of a vote against any of those elements — a point that Durbin was sure to underscore.

“If you want to cast your vote against it, I’m sure there will be many people at home with a lot of questions,” he said.
<snip>

[NYC Liberal]

11. Um, ok, or not.

It forces all of them to either vote against their own bills, or vote for it but abandon Coburn and play politics.

[central scrutinizer]

10. Nice to see Vitter is working on pornography

He is probably an expert on the matter

[dave123williams]

12. Sex-obsessed moralizing douchebags tend to.

[Supersedeas]

13. exposing a filthy slime ball like Coburn can be so easy