{"id":7038,"date":"2010-01-30T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/straight-party-line-vote-foragainst-raising-debt-limit\/"},"modified":"2010-01-30T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T13:45:00","slug":"straight-party-line-vote-foragainst-raising-debt-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/straight-party-line-vote-foragainst-raising-debt-limit.php","title":{"rendered":"Straight Party-line Vote For\/Against raising Debt limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S2Q7SSinF9I\/AAAAAAAAJho\/P7b3KPyN3TE\/s1600-h\/Tweedle-dee.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e3247_Tweedle-dee.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>No Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum on Fiscal matters before Congress<\/strong><\/p><p>by Eric Dondero<\/p><p>Many 3rd party partisans, including some in the Libertarian Party like to use the old mantra: \"there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two major parties.\"  Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum is their common refrain.  But on an increasing amount of critical votes in Congress, the differences are blaringly stark: Health care - straight party line, not a single Republican vote for socialist proposal; Obama Stimulus earlier in the year - near straight party line vote, only one single GOP House member voted for the bill, (Rep. Anh Cao, LA) and he has since recanted. <\/p><p>Now, another critical vote has just been taken: Raising the debt limit.  From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2010\/01\/28\/us\/politics\/politics-us-usa-congress-debt.html?_r=1\">NY Times<\/a>, Jan. 27:<\/p><blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate voted narrowly on Thursday to increase the government's borrowing authority to $14.3 trillion, which would allow the Treasury Department to continue servicing the country's spiraling national debt through most of 2010.<\/p><p>Senate Democrats hope the 60 to 40 party-line vote will enable them to avoid another politically toxic vote on the issue before the November congressional elections.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Even moderate Republican Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, George Voinivich of Ohio and Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, voted against the measure.<\/p><p>Of note, Senate-elect Scott Brown has yet to be seated. Acting Senator from Massachusetts, Democrat Paul Kirk is still casting votes.<\/p><p>In Congress as of late, one-party clearly represents both sides; Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dummer.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e3247_7828681836623105417-5614560660551822385?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum on Fiscal matters before Congressby Eric DonderoMany 3rd party partisans, including some in the Libertarian Party like to use the old mantra: \"there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two major parties.\" Tweedle-dee and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/straight-party-line-vote-foragainst-raising-debt-limit.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}