whonew wrote:

Mr. Reid had scheduled a post-speech vote on a Republican resolution to disapprove the increase to the debt limit. It failed on its first procedural vote, with 52 Democrats opposed. The inconvenient vote had an icing-on-the-cake quality for Mr. Reid, as it forced Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, to stay in Washington rather than flee to his home state to watch the Saints-Packers N.F.L. season opener, as he had said he would.



Poor baby, didn't get to sat at home in front of his big screen TV to watch the Saints-Pakers season opener.  WOW.

Republicans, the party of
DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO