Kangaroo Congress
Most ethical congress ever? Changing votes after banging the gavel then trying to cover it up by declaring the voting machine is broken? Nice. Hugo would be proud.
Is this what Nancy Pelosi meant by ‘ethical?’ Apparently she was using the loose definition of the term in order to encompass all the manifold variants of nuance that the word could possibly contain. Kind of a multi-interpretational approach.
In this case ethical means lying, cheating, and stealing votes on the House Floor in addition to your basic public theft. (See here as well.)
Two Democrats changed their votes to ensure that the measure would fail, but then three Republicans did the same. The vote total was 215-213 in favor of the Republican motion to recommit. At that moment, Rep. Mike McNulty ( D-N.Y.), who was in the Speaker’s chair, gavelled out the vote, thinking that it was a tie and the motion had failed. But he had miscounted — the motion had actually passed. The Democrats were only able to change this by cheating and changing more votes after the gavel.
Although they did not do so for hours, the House clerk’s office finally did put a record of the vote online this morning, with the measure failing by a vote of 216-212.McNulty, still in the chair, had to explain to Minority Leader Boehner (R-Ohio), during the parliamentary procedure that followed, that “the machine is down” — the machine that tells members what they are voting on and how they’ve voted. This drew groans, of course, since it was not hard to infer that it had been turned off after the crooked vote. Hoyer came back in the morning with a speech devoid of apology, but full of “tearful self-justification,” calling for an Ethics Committee Inquiry. Boehner replied that the Ethics Committee is a “black hole,” but maintained a conciliatory tone. ~corner.nationalreview.com
This is what Democrats mean by the ‘democratic’ process. It looks suspiciously like Venezuelan ‘democracy’. When you don’t get the results you like, cheat.
But then Democrats have always been on record for recounts when the vote doesn’t go in their favor.
On a positive note McNulty did apologize for not executing the vote stealing more smoothly.
McNulty took to the floor Friday morning to apologize for his action.
“I want to express regret that I gaveled the vote too early,” McNulty said and apologized for his role in the confusion that rocked the House floor last night.
McNulty gaveled the motion to recommit closed at 214 to 214, when the final vote tally on the board was 213 to 215 after Florida Republican Reps. Mario Diaz Balart, Lincoln Diaz Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen changed their votes from a “no” to a “yes.”
“We went to the front of the House [to change our votes],”Rep. Mario Diaz Balart said, adding that the board had changed to the count of 213 to 215 in favor of the motion to recommit, and that the gavel went down but McNulty hadn’t seen the change.
“It stayed there for several minutes …then the votes started to change again,” he said, causing the vote to flip. “That’s when there was the meltdown.”
Diaz Balart said of McNulty, “It wasn’t done in malice that’s why he apologized.” ~thehill.com
House Erupts in Chaos (as Democrats fix vote.)
Shoved into the internet 'tubes' on August 3, 2007, by Hegemonic Pundit,
under the following categories: 2006 election, culture of corruption, democrats, gross hypocrisy, the left
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