This Has To Be A Misprint….. I HOPE
Posted by Andy on June 11th, 2008
Out of respect for Senator COleman’s position, I’m not going to comment until I can verify, but I reserve the right to explode if I ever get a break here at work. Before I collapsed last night, I thought I heard Coleman opposed this.
Senate Republicans defeat attempts to tax “excessive oil company profits.” GOP Sen. Norm Coleman and DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar voted for the bill. (Via Polinaut)
Say it ain’t so Norm…. Please. Or his spinmeisters on the net can explain to me how this is a good stance.
Heck, I’ll shoot this off to his campaign manager too and see if he has a correction or response.
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June 11th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
This is a good stance because Minnesotan’s voted for Klobuchar by an overwhelming margin. Trust me, Minnesota hasn’t gotten more conservative since 2006.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
You and many others continue to confuse votes for or against cloture (to cease or continue debate) with votes for or against the legislation itself. Norm has a habit of voting to debate just about everything, and only later does he cast a vote that “counts.” Not that he hasn’t sometimes been disappointing on those final votes, but we definitely need to make the distinction.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
J. Ewing’s point is well taken, however, technically Norm did vote for it. He voted for cloture on it.
Norm frequently takes the rather naive view that bills like these can be improved with debate and amendments. What he apparently doesn’t understand is short of an amendment that says “delete the entire thing” there is no lipstick that makes this pig Miss USA.
And since the threshold for cloture is higher, if you’re going to kill a bill, that’s the time to do it.
I understand he didn’t actually vote for it, but effectively he did. You can argue that point and talk about playing the political game. However, I don’t want our politicians playing petty games with my future.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Norm better wake up. While straddling the fence, he’s pissing off people on both sides of it. He’s lucky that his opponent is Al Franken, but even that windfall might not be enough to save his senate seat if he doesn’t start flying right.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:05 am
I think “naive” may be one of the best explanations I’ve heard. I think Norm believes that the purpose of Democrat legislation is to solve problems, and that through debate and amendment these “solutions” can be made better. That may still be true in small-time politics, like St. Paul, and as it once was in this country (however misguided), but modern Democrats care only about liberal ideology and political power. The saying “you can’t fix stupid” is highly applicable to modern Democrat lawmaking. Norm should realize that.