Nyet! – Mother Jones
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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. NYET!….The Obama administration wants to extend the February 17 deadline
for TV stations to switch from analog to digital transmissions. I don’t have a strong opinion about the merits of this delay, but check out the results of the roll call vote in Congress:
> [Joe] Barton led the push to scuttle the bill, which passed the > Senate unanimously on Monday night after lawmakers in that chamber > struck a bipartisan compromise….But those
concessions did not > placate most Republicans in the House. Only 22 Republicans voted for > the bill, while 155 voted against it. So here we have a relatively nonideological issue. It
went through a modest amount of give-and-take and a compromise was struck. And the result? 100% of Senate Republicans voted in favor but _90% of House Republicans voted against_. Shazam!
Apparently the House GOP caucus really has decided to blindly stonewall everything Obama wants, no matter what. This is even more of a wakeup call than the vote on the stimulus bill.