re: #208 Dark_Falcon

The Dems tacked on two bills to the Defense Bill and refused to allow the Senate to even vote on any GOP Amendments. Harry Reid wanted to use this bill and vote as weapons. He got his wish and in about 6 weeks we’ll see what the voters say.

How is that procedural games, exactly? Why not allow an up-or-down vote on the bills as they stand?

I don’t get this line of reasoning. The bills are worth voting for. The GOP are blocking a vote on them. They are not voting against them; they are voting against voting.

Why does this lead you to say that the Democrats are playing ‘procedural games’.

Yes, the Democrats want the bills passed without an endless cycle of poison-pill amendments. Big whup. If the bill, unamended, is bad, the GOP can vote against it.

But the GOP is not. They are not allowing any vote on the bill.

And that is playing a procedural game. One that winds up with gays, immigrants, and the military losing.

I do not understand in the least how the GOP has managed to convince so many people that blocking votes on legitimate bills— in this case, bills that have had significant GOP input— is a good thing to do.

I just don’t get it.