If they gave a Nobel Prize in Hypocrisy, these folks would be joint winners.
The switchers who voted no on cloture but yes today:
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
George LeMieux (R-FL)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Roger Wicker (R-MS)And those who were absent Monday but voted yes today:
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
These are the folks who either actually or implicitly voted to filibuster a jobs bill for which they eventually voted. There is no intellectual justification for that sort of switch, as there would be for voting to stop a filibuster against a bill one does not support.
One must wonder whether the punditocracy that keeps urging “bipartisanship” upon the Democrats, while blaming them for gridlock for catering to their left wing base, will take note. No, one doesn’t wonder. Note will not be taken.
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