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August 01, 2010

Rush Explains That Screaming Hissy Fit By Rep. Anthony Weiner
— Ace

Why were Republicans balking?

Because Democrats thought no one could vote against a bill that funded first-responders, and so attached pro-illegal-immigration measures to it.

More Detail: James Richardson explains in an editorial.

The House leadership had suspended typical proceduresÂ—requiring a simple majorityÂ—on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009 in order to prevent GOP-offered amendments that they feared might compromise the votes of endangered Democrats.
Senior Democrats were concerned that Republicans might offer a motion to recommit Â— sending the bill back to committee with instructions to pay for it with funds from the president's health care reforms.
The DemocratsÂ’ procedural tack meant the bill needed two-thirds majority to pass Â— a large coalition that senior Democrats surely knew was untenable.
...
Instead, Democrats adopted a crudely partisan, morally repugnant tack by hiking the vote threshold for passage.
...
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who represents many of those who survived 9/11, summed up the situation: "They're afraid of taking a tough vote and as a result of that, they're willing to let cops and firefighters die."

I don't see any mention of illegal immigration measures -- I'm writing to him to clarify that.

Clarification: Richardson tells me the Democratic bill didn't forbid illegal aliens from qualifying for the aid contained in the package, and perhaps some Republicans wanted to block that from happening with an amendment. It was not, however, one of the stated objections the House Republican caucus floated.

Posted by: Ace at 02:18 PM | Comments (41)
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Posted by: davidt at August 01, 2010 02:21 PM (HtIec)

2 Everybody loves immigrants!

Posted by: New Mexico, where Arizona's flotsam drifts in at August 01, 2010 02:21 PM (4Kl5M)

3 Should I bitch about being rightfully first?

Posted by: New Mexico, etc at August 01, 2010 02:22 PM (4Kl5M)

4 This is an old trick with these assholes. Its the same thing they used with the Levin thing to try to repeal the BS $600 1099 requirement.

Posted by: Vic at August 01, 2010 02:23 PM (/jbAw)

5 Something needs to be done about the practice of legislative bills containing unrelated and/or contradictory provisions.

Posted by: davidt at August 01, 2010 02:25 PM (HtIec)

6 Weiner went on to add that he was "not going to pay a lot for that muffler."

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at August 01, 2010 02:26 PM (j4oN3)

7 Listening to Anthony Weiner shriek is like listening to Pee Wee Herman do am impression of R. Lee Ermey.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at August 01, 2010 02:26 PM (j4oN3)

8 Doesn't everyone want to be an (Oscar Meyer) Weiner?

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at August 01, 2010 02:27 PM (c0A3e)

If our founding fathers knew that we were being enslaved by whiny sissy-fag Bolshevik-nihilist sodomites, like Anthony Wiener, married to double agent Islamist beards, like Huma Abedin, then they would be turning over in their graves.

Posted by: at August 01, 2010 02:27 PM (pfMMA)

10 Gee, that line-item veto dream sounds so dreamy... in a far-away conservative utopia.

Posted by: dum blond at August 01, 2010 02:29 PM (gbCNS)

11 Why were Republicans balking?

Because sadly, too many Republicans are quite apathetic about illegal immigration.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 01, 2010 02:30 PM (c0A3e)

12 Anthony, I'll let you have your say, but first you must blow me!

Posted by: Peter King - don't call me Mel at August 01, 2010 02:30 PM (YVZlY)

13 "Something needs to be done about the practice of legislative bills containing unrelated and/or contradictory provisions."

Most state constitutions have a "single-subject" provision. The US Constitution does not. It MIGHT be a good idea, but on the other hand, it would get the courts looking inside the legislative process, which is worrisome for robust separation of powers.

The House has a germaneness rule, but it applies only to amendments, and as I understand it, this bill was offered up as is from the start.

Posted by: Dave J. at August 01, 2010 02:30 PM (DCQ0q)

Like Kay Baily Hutchinson's defense bill which was larded up with amnesty two (three?) years ago.

The calendar changes, but the playbook stays the same.

We need to be relentless if we are to defeat th left.

Posted by: USCitizen at August 01, 2010 02:31 PM (U8NeH)

15 th = the

Posted by: USCitizen at August 01, 2010 02:32 PM (U8NeH)

16 Hey Anthony, come on over here and I'll give you something to scream about...

Posted by: Ned Beatty at August 01, 2010 02:32 PM (YVZlY)

17
In order to "clean up Washington" - Democrats would all have to step down.

We are sick of this shit, liars.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 01, 2010 02:32 PM (0fzsA)

We can't "defeat" the left.

The best we can hope for is to outlive them - for the red states to secede, and for the remaining blue states to shrivel up and die from demographic implosion.

Posted by: at August 01, 2010 02:33 PM (pfMMA)

19 @5 - They would find a way around that, just like they stretch the "commerce clause" to justify everything.

Posted by: Lone Marauder at August 01, 2010 02:33 PM (p1iaB)

20 The republicans have done the same duplicitous shit in the past though. This is one of the sleazy things they need to be broken of if they want to hold the house in 2012.

The public is really getting sick and tired of this kind of chicanery.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at August 01, 2010 02:34 PM (YLC3I)

21 this kind of chicanery.

You racist!!

Posted by: La Raza at August 01, 2010 02:36 PM (d88g9)

They would find a way around that, just like they stretch the "commerce clause" to justify everything.

Yeah. Hell, the chicken gets f'd less than the commerce clause...

Posted by: dudeinsantacruz at August 01, 2010 02:36 PM (Ismnj)

23 Thank you for clearing that up, Ace.

Posted by: teh dave at August 01, 2010 02:44 PM (+2Gjy)

24 In the meantime, a better and more highly intellectual Republican is telling us what embarrasses him about current conservatism.

Posted by: ed at August 01, 2010 02:45 PM (3f/a8)

25 The public is really getting sick and tired of this kind of chicanery.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at August 01, 2010 06:34 PM

I'd love to agree with you, but which "public?"

The average Joe (or Jose) Lunchbox doesn't understand the process at all. They hear Anthony Weenie ranting because evil Republicans want to tear money away from 9/11 first responders, accept that as truth, then go back to the Golf Channel or Skinemax.

Look at the polls: the fact that any sitting Congress-crook is generating any approval numbers, let alone winning many of their races, shows the depths of apathy and ignorance to which the general public has sunk.

If any incumbents win in November, we'll know the truth: disgust with what the out-of-touch, self-aggrandizing and dishonest jerks in the House and Senate is confined largely to readers of AoSHQ, some at Tepid Air, and fewer at other so-called conservative website.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 01, 2010 02:48 PM (Ulu3i)

26 Weiner=weiner

Posted by: dagny at August 01, 2010 02:49 PM (tCghM)

27 Akin to #13
After your second revolution, you guys really need to ensure that one bill is only about one law and nothing else.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 01, 2010 02:51 PM (rfHsm)

28 Oh, and what a wiener!

Posted by: andycanuck at August 01, 2010 02:52 PM (rfHsm)

29 26 I agree.People are too uninformed to be angry at the Dems.

Posted by: steevy at August 01, 2010 03:08 PM (bm2js)

30 Weiner knows exactly what he's doing, and King is a doofus for playing along with it. Look how they were going to have separate segments, and then after Weiner got his whole segment to himself he horned in on King's segment and kept repeating his dumb percentages. You can't play nice with these people.

Posted by: the peanut gallery at August 01, 2010 03:09 PM (NurK6)

31 Don't forget: Weiner is running for Mayor of NYC in 2013: http://bit.ly/doTEAa

Posted by: Robert_Paulson at August 01, 2010 03:16 PM (vei3d)

32 Don't be fooled rogue weiners.

Posted by: Oscar Mayer at August 01, 2010 03:20 PM (gbCNS)

33 Or by them, either.

Posted by: Oscar Mayer at August 01, 2010 03:21 PM (gbCNS)

34 Don' be fooled by rogue weiners. Their buns have a strange curve to them, off to the left.

Posted by: Oscar Mayer at August 01, 2010 03:27 PM (gbCNS)

35 I saw King too, and he never mentioned immigration.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 01, 2010 03:35 PM (phwHZ)

Weiner (whiner) Wienver (weiner) I get all confused by this prissy little asshole.

Looks like he wants something to chew on. I've got a whole herd of donkeys, some with dicks, and he can come out and pick one to put in his mouth.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at August 01, 2010 03:41 PM (ktYjH)

Weiner is running for Mayor of NYC in 2013: http://bit.ly/doTEAan

Note how the rogue weiner misspells Mayer, the misleading fiend. I will not be usurped,

Posted by: Oscar Mayer at August 01, 2010 03:46 PM (gbCNS)

38
Do the media ask any though questions? - no. Just emothionist bullshit.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 01, 2010 04:37 PM (0fzsA)

39 I expect Hotair to link to politico because they are lazy milquetoasts, but not you Ace. I don't care if it is a good piece or not, as long as Mike Allen and Ben Smith are there, why give those commie-loving genital warts the clicks? Yes, I'm calling MA and BS genital warts, and even though not everyone over there is a genital wart yet, I'm sure a moron or two knows how easily they spread. So, until Politico gets some cream to remove them, they support the undermining of the news.

Posted by: Old grizzled gym coach at August 01, 2010 08:46 PM (QBQcg)

40 Dude was stealing my schtick...

Posted by: MATT DAMON! at August 02, 2010 10:46 AM (kC3nL)

41 Weiner looks like a carp coming up for air when he opens his hole. Man that guy is nasty looking.

Posted by: Desiree at August 03, 2010 11:08 AM (ObORb)

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