02-04-2016, 01:28 PM
(02-04-2016, 11:42 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: I can see the frustration with some when they continue To take votes on this matter. But they did run on and promise voters they would repeal.
There is something to be said for following trough on your campaign promise. Plus it does keep it warm when a republican gets elected in 2016 to repeal.
(02-04-2016, 01:17 PM)Benton Wrote: If nothing has changed, there's no need for a new vote. If it was failing by 1 vote every time, or if there's an election and new people come into office, sure. But voting more than 10 times a year on something when there hasn't been a change is grandstanding. And it's wasting tens of millions of dollars to do it.
And that's my big problem. This party that is supposed to be about fiscal responsibility is wasting taxpayer money of political grandstanding. There is no chance of it working, they know that from all of the previous attempts. They take a headcount of the votes before they hold the vote itself to know beforehand for major votes like that, so they know it will fall flat, yet they do it anyway.
