The House voted to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress by a mostly partisan vote of 255-67. Congresswoman Kathy Hochul was one of a handful of Democrats to vote in favor of the charge. Congressman Richard Hanna posted the reason for his vote on his Facebook page.
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I’d rethink your description of the vote.
As a couple bloggers have pointed out, when “moderate Republican” Olympia Snowe is the -only- Republican Senator to cross the aisle to vote with the Democrats, the press touts it a “bipartisan majority” as if that makes everything kosher.
However, when 17 Dems cross the aisle to vote their consciences in the House it is a “mostly party-line vote” and thus, per the media narrative, mere partisan clap-trap.
Screw that, we need to not use their narrative. Any time even a single Democrat votes a way we like on a win, we need to take a page from their book and trumpet that as a “bipartisan majority showing the true will of the people.”
Make it clear -our- ideas represent the majority opinion of Americans regardless of party affiliation.
I agree with what you’re saying and if I were doing a press release on it that is how I would phrase it.