California Republicans vote against Mothers Day

by Dante Atkins (hekebolos) [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

In case you haven't seen it, the Republicans in Congress decided, as part of their tactics to bring business to a halt in the House of Representatives, to call for reconsideration of HR 1113, a resolutions celebrating the spirit of Mothers Day.

HR 1113 passed 412-0, but Kansas Republican Todd Tiahrt decided to protest it with a motion to reconsider.  Immediately thereafter, there was a motion to table (i.e., kill) the motion to reconsider (thus eliminating the challenge to the original non-controversial resolution).

This time, in a display of protest, 178 Republicans decided to vote against Mothers Day by voting against the motion to table the motion to reconsider HR 1113.  The motions, tablings and resolutions are all a bit complicated, but the bottom line is this:

By a nearly unanimous vote, Republicans in Congress voted against Mothers Day to foster a climate of political obstructionism.

And on the roll call for the vote, I see three interesting things on the list:

• Nay CA-24 Gallegly, Elton [R]
• Nay CA-26 Dreier, David [R]
• Nay CA-42 Miller, Gary [R]

Three vulnerable Republicans, each choosing to vote the Republican party line of obstructionism instead of doing the job they were hired to do.

If I were the candidates that were running against them, I'd take them to task for voting against Mothers Day to serve their party line hackery.