-T. S. Eliot
Right now the House Republicans think they are about 10 feet tall when they really only stand at about 3 foot 2 inches what with their refusal to vote on the Clean Bill. Here is Rep Paul Labrador explaining to Anderson Cooper why Republicans do not have to bring the Democratic Clean Bill to a vote. Why don't they? Because the Democrats do not have enough votes to win:
Cooper:Why not bring this to a vote in the House right now?
Labrador: You know, we could bring it to a vote and it would lose and you-- and the Democrats keep talking, and you know, this is a beautiful point the Democrats have is something they have no evidence that there is anyone will to vote for this--
Cooper: Why not see? Why not bring it up and see?
Labrador: But why should we? Why should we actually vote?
Cooper: Because that's the way things work.
Labrador: That is not how things work.
At that point the discussion got off track when Labrador accused Cooper of not liking Republicans and being a Democratic stooge (Well, not in those words but that is what he meant). Soon they got back on topic.
COOPER: But why not -- why not -- I guess what I just don't understand is if you're convinced it wouldn't pass, why not bring it up to a vote to take away that Democratic talking point?
LABRADOR: But why do it when you have a discharge petition right now the Democrats have been trying to put forth? Not a single Republican has signed that discharge petition. That's actual proof that there's not a single Republican that wants to do what the Democrats wanted.
COOPER: But wouldn't it make your -- but wouldn't it make your position stronger? Your argument about they're not willing to negotiate if you brought this up, let it not pass, and then --
LABRADOR: It's not necessary.
COOPER: And then that takes away their talking point.
LABRADOR: It's not necessary. When you have a discharge petition which, under the rules of the House, would force a vote on the house, not a single Republican has -- has signed that discharge petition. So their talking points are null and void.
Cooper: Congressman Labrador, appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Really do.
Now what is interesting about Labrador's last point is that earlier in the interview he said Obamacare was passed due to procedural tricks by the Democrats.
LABRADOR: So according to you the only election that mattered was the election of Obama. It doesn't matter that the House of Representatives in 2010 and 2012 actually won both times with majorities because we were fighting against Obamacare.
COOPER: Right. This has been passed by Congress. This law has been passed by Congress.
LABRADOR: That is not --
COOPER: I understand you don't like. You didn't run on it. But you ran on repealing it.
LABRADOR: No. Not a single Republican voted for it. Not a single Republican voted for it.
COOPER: It passed Congress, didn't it?
LABRADOR: The election of 2010 -- remember how it passed. It was through some procedural tricks. If you remember the Senate passed a bill -- one of the reasons Obamacare has so many problems right now is because they passed a bill in the Senate. That Senate bill was incomplete.
Bad, bad, bad Democrats for using procedural tricks to get what they want...wait, remember what he said at the end of his interview about why they don't have to vote on the Clean Bill?
LABRADOR: It's not necessary. When you have a discharge petition which, under the rules of the House, would force a vote on the house, not a single Republican has -- has signed that discharge petition. So their talking points are null and void.
Ohh, I see, only Republicans can win on what they call "procedural trickery". These people are shrinking right before our eyes. They keep this up and soon there will be no Republican party. Is that what they really want?
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