When President Bush was elected, the republicans removed that requirement resulting in the deficit we had when President Obama took office.
In his state of the union speech a couple of days ago, President Obama asked the congress to reinstitute the pay go rule so we could get the deficit under control.
Each and every republican voted no.
Even those senators that applauded the pay go rule in the past, voted no. Republicans Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, George Voinovich and John McCain used to be in favor of the pay go rule but yesterday, they voted against it proving that they are indeed the party of no, no, no.
You have to give the republicans some credit at least. For a party that is anti-union, they have the most unified union in America.
All other unions have members that disagree with their leaders. Most unions are democratic in that the majority of the members run the union. The unions are run from the bottom up, regardless of what their leaders might want.
The republican party, on the other hand is run from the top down not allowing any member to object to decisions coming from their leadership. Now that's real power.
For elections to senate republican slots, you need not consider whether the candidate can read, or even think. They don't need to.
For a political party to be against unionism, they sure have a strong union themselves.
