Questionable Senate Republicans

Posted on February 3, 2009
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February 3, 2009, Questionable Senate Republicans. Following last week’s show of Republican Party unity in the House of Representatives on the H.R.1 Bill, for the first time in recent memory, the Senate Republicans are still acting like Democrat light.

Although Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell, of Kentucky, voted against the confirmation of Timothy F. Geithner to be Secretary of the Treasury, it seems that Minority Leader McConell will not be able to prompt his Republican colleges to an esprit de corps on what should be Republican positions on ethical behavior of those they must judge. The following list represents the Republican Yea votes for the confirmation of Treasury Secretary Geithner.

Republican Yea votes for the confirmation of Treasury Secretary Geithner:

Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Voinovich (R-OH)

This group of Republican Senators felt compelled to approve someone that could not properly pay his taxes, until learning he would be nominated to head the Treasury Department. The very department that controls monetary policy and includes the agency that collects tax revenue. In a country of 300 million, plus, there was no other person capable of handling that position? The new Treasury Secretary was an individual, as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, that was involved with implementation, and the lack of transparency, of the $700 billion “Bail Out” last year. This provides a glimpse into how Republican Senators will support conservative Republican positions in upcoming votes on the Stimulus Bill, S.1, The SCHIP Bill, S.275 (similar to H.R.2) and other upcoming legislative and confirmation matters.

This is precisely why we, the Republican citizenry, need to see a Republican unified front in the House of Representatives. The U.S. House is our only voice in the federal government, representing the 58 million voters that voted against the current President last November. I look forward to many more unified votes from the U.S. House. They can not allow the end of our country, as we have known it, for security, free-market capitalism, limited regulation, freedom and liberty. Also, the Constitution is not a TBD document, and the legislature has to make law that takes interpretation away from Judges.