Monday, September 29, 2008
H R 3997 for other purposes
H R 3997 RECORDED VOTE 29-Sep-2008 2:07 PM
QUESTION: On Concurring in Senate Amendment With An Amendment
BILL TITLE: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide earnings assistance and tax relief to members of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters, and Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes
That's how it's listed on the dot gov roll call page. Other purposes.
Of New Jersey's delegation, 3 Dems & 4 Repugs against; 4 Dems & 2 Repugs for. The latter 2 Repugs are retiring. The bill lost a state where many, many thousands of residents depend directly on employment in the financial sector. How confusing is that? Liberals hated it as much as the conservatives, & anyone who says Nancy Pelosi's inexplicably partisan speech when she needed a bipartisan majority sunk the bill in a matter of minutes is nuts. She's a paper tiger. As for McCain:
We wait in vain for a peace plan, an energy plan, a health plan, an environmental plan, an education plan, an infrastructure plan. The guvmint sends us "free money" & tells us to spend it & everything be fine, & it's not. A few weeks ago they spent $84 billion on a fix. Then in a mere three days they come up with a plan to rescue the whole freakin' economy. That would have to rate as the greatest three day miracle in 2000 years. No wonder Americans are doubtful. We don't understand what's happening or why. We have problems with the simple stuff: Who attacked us on 9/11 & how old is the world?
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
QUESTION: On Concurring in Senate Amendment With An Amendment
BILL TITLE: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide earnings assistance and tax relief to members of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters, and Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes
That's how it's listed on the dot gov roll call page. Other purposes.
Of New Jersey's delegation, 3 Dems & 4 Repugs against; 4 Dems & 2 Repugs for. The latter 2 Repugs are retiring. The bill lost a state where many, many thousands of residents depend directly on employment in the financial sector. How confusing is that? Liberals hated it as much as the conservatives, & anyone who says Nancy Pelosi's inexplicably partisan speech when she needed a bipartisan majority sunk the bill in a matter of minutes is nuts. She's a paper tiger. As for McCain:
You know, remarkably, some people have criticized my decision, but I will never, ever be a president who sits on the sidelines when this country faces a crisis. I know that many of you may have noticed, but it's not my style to simply "phone it in."Is he referring to a particular president "sitting on the sidelines"? My Friends, hehehe, McCain cannot "lead" in the absence of a crisis. So, in only one month he has adopted three for himself in which his leadership was not required or even strongly solicited. A McCain adminstration would stumble from crisis to crisis, from red alert to cry wolf, but with hardly a mission-accomplished photo op. When there is no crisis he can embrace as a nation-saving cause (see Rudy Giuliani) he will invent one, a frightening prospect. You're supposed to know when it's enough just to pick up the phone. Cheney has conducted his business mostly that way for 8 years.9/29/08
We wait in vain for a peace plan, an energy plan, a health plan, an environmental plan, an education plan, an infrastructure plan. The guvmint sends us "free money" & tells us to spend it & everything be fine, & it's not. A few weeks ago they spent $84 billion on a fix. Then in a mere three days they come up with a plan to rescue the whole freakin' economy. That would have to rate as the greatest three day miracle in 2000 years. No wonder Americans are doubtful. We don't understand what's happening or why. We have problems with the simple stuff: Who attacked us on 9/11 & how old is the world?
Labels: New Jersey politics, THE election
