UPDATE II — Here’s the roll call vote on the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008.
Only three Dems voted against it: Boyda (KS), DeFazio (Or), and Kaptur (OH). I’m guessing they’ll get a stern talking to later.
Meanwhile, 45 RINOs voted for it.
UPDATE — Rep. Culberson just sent out the following tweets from the House floor 5 minutes ago:
Biggest expansion of gov’t since New Deal just passed House 272 to 152 - this may be the best no vote I ever cast - 5 trillion new liability
If you like the way FEMA handled Katrina you will love the way the fed gov’t handles home loans and remodeling
I am on the House floor behind current speaker breaking the rules by posting this Tweet
Mortgage bill creates an open ended line of credit for Freddie/Fannie to withdraw as much taxpayer cash as they want w/o repaying us ever.
I called my Congressman, Mike McCaul (R-TX 10) earlier and verified that he voted against this travesty. He did.
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Rep. John Culberson (R-TX7) regularly “tweets” live from the House floor — you’re simply not going to get news any quicker than that.
Which is where I got this scary piece of news this morning:
Filed at 6:30pm the largest expansion of fed gov’t since New Deal will be on House floor less than 18 hours later for vote.No hearings.
No amendments utterly no public scrutiny on putting fed gov’t in mortgage business and exposing our children to 5 trillion liabilty.
Absolute disgrace - Pelosi’s House is literally run like the Supreme Soviet - she is putting FEMA style bureacrats in the Home loan business.
So much for more transparency in Congress. It’s business as usual — which is tax, spend, tax, spend, tax spend, spend, spend, spend…
This is, without a doubt, the most corrupt and disgraceful Congress in the history of the United States. Thank you very much, Speaker Pelosi, for not only breaking your promise to “drain the swamp”, but for actually making the “swamp” deeper, murkier, and even more dangerous to American citizens.
Please contact your representatives this morning and beg them to vote aginst
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One caveat, though. On many occasions I’ve made the claim that I don’t believe there is a single moral or decent person in our Congress — the House or the Senate.
The more I find out about Rep. Culberson, the more I realize what an enigma he is. What we need is a lot more Culberson, and a lot less Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, and Robert Byrd.
Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, and Byrd must be the spawn of satan….Pelosi and Reid in particular.
Where are well placed, Lethal, lightning bolts when you need them ?
Left by SB Smith on July 23rd, 2008 at 9:56 am