Yet another example of Republican CHEATING.
A baseball analogy: The Republicans are the home team, and they are behind 3-2 (actually, 216-207 as of 11:11 p.m. EDT, but let's use a typical baseball score to make the analogy work better) at the end of the ninth inning. The baseball game is over and the Democrats narrowly won, right? Nope, not by the rules the Republican team plays by. They're essentially declaring, "This game isn't over yet. We're going to play a 10th inning." If the score doesn't change after 10 innings, they will play an 11th inning. They'll keep playing extra innings until ... in the bottom of the 14th inning, the Republicans will finally score a couple of runs and take the lead, 4-3, and THAT'S when the umpire — er, the Speaker — will gavel the vote closed and declare the Republicans the winner.
Now, any baseball fan, any fan of any baseball team, would agree that this is CHEATING. And yet, this is EXACTLY the way Republicans get these close House of Representatives votes passed.
Do Democrats ever do this when they have a slim House lead? Have Democrats ever gotten a bill passed this way? I don't recall that they ever have. But Republicans have done this before, and it is outrageous. This is how they got that bill that passed Medicare Disadvantage passed, back in 2003 I think it was. A year or two later the Republicans tried this disgusting tactic again, and the Democrats in the House started chanting, SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! But Republicans have no shame, so you can't shame them.
— Ron
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