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Fire in the Disco!!! House Dems almost hang GOPers by their own petard

Apr 15, 2011#1

SpecialKO

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TL;DR Dems almost trick GOPers to pass n even more conservative version of the Ryan plan that would have entirely rolled back Medicare. GOPers freak out and change all their votes from "yes" to "no".

Apr 15, 2011#2

Ravenpoe

That's fucking brilliant.

Apr 15, 2011#3

AshburnerX

I MUST see a video of this.

Apr 15, 2011#4

Covar

So Democrats put up an extremely conservative budget and it would have hurt the Republicans if it passed?

Apr 15, 2011#5

Ravenpoe

No. the republicans put up an extremely conservative budget, and the dems refused to vote it down, forcing the republicans to change their vote to keep it from passing.

Apr 15, 2011#6

SpecialKO

Covar said:
So Democrats put up an extremely conservative budget and it would have hurt the Republicans if it passed?

No, no, the GOPers put up an even more conservative version of the plan, confident that the Dems would filibuster it by voting "no", so they wouldn't lose the Medicare vote while still being able to mug for the "CUT ALL ENTITLEMENTS" tea party crowd while the Dems got shrill. The Dems called their bluff, voted "present" (no filibuster), and all the GOPers who didn't want to lose the Medicare vote (most of them) freaked out and all flipped their votes before the plan could be passed.

Apr 15, 2011#7

Krisken

Ok, now that is hilarious.

Apr 20, 2011#8

@Li3n

Wow, the dems showing some balls... one more sign of the mayans being right.

EDIT: And of course Stewart and Colbert are on break...
Added at: 08:10

AshburnerX said:
I MUST see a video of this.

Got your wish (it's in the OP link).

Apr 20, 2011#9

Necronic

That is absolutely brilliant. Big ups to the Dems for this one. When the reps took over I made a comment about how the Reps would throw a bunch of straw man proposals forward for the Dems to shoot down so they could say they stood for something (even though these proposals would be absolutely terrible to do), glad to see that the Dems finally called their bluff on this process.

Apr 21, 2011#10

Chibibar

Necronic said:
That is absolutely brilliant. Big ups to the Dems for this one. When the reps took over I made a comment about how the Reps would throw a bunch of straw man proposals forward for the Dems to shoot down so they could say they stood for something (even though these proposals would be absolutely terrible to do), glad to see that the Dems finally called their bluff on this process.

Yup. It is pure genius

I love it. The GOP was bluffing and the Dem called them on it.

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