re: #147 Dark_Falcon

Given how badly Tammy Duckworth got hurt by Saddam Hussein’s thugs when they shot down her helo, the fact that she could get pregnant at all, much less at 41, is little short of a miracle in my eyes. So there’s that argument in her favor.

There’s also that I currently sell advertising for a magazine dealing with pregnancy and baby care. Just studying up on some of the issues I have to be able to speak to has made me care.

Then lastly, there’s the fact that Tammy Duckworth got her seat in Congress by defeating deadbeat dad, pathological liar, and all-around poisonous toad Joe Walsh. She’s from my state and she did every sane person in Illinois a favor in removing Walsh from our congressional delegation.

So yeah, BR, I care.

So what do you feel Pelosi should have done? Carved a special exemption into rules regarding votes so she could submit a proxy vote while all other Democrats had to be in person to cast their vote? You do understand that would not have stopped others from submitting their own excuses, such as the already mentioned Congresswoman who is attending a funeral, in order to submit votes, right? And what of the criticism that she would receive for allowing proxy votes when Congress has forbidden such since its creation, a situation that both parties have exploited in the past to pass bills in absence of the other party’s members?