(Hilarious - promoted by Eric B.)
If not the national spotlight then at least over at The Washington Monthly, where Steve Bennen outs the rhetoric, then the switched vote on S-CHIP. Obviously the lessons of Walberg and Knollenberg were not lost on the Livonia rep. That, and the census reality of a lost seat for Michigan in 2010: the target is on his back (nice little district you got there, Thad. Shame if something ever happened to it). Still, whateer the reason, we'll take his vote. Sadly, McCotter is probably one of the more (ahem) open Republicans. Certainly Peter Hoekstra's vote seems odd, given his putative gubernatorial ambitions. Update! (E.B.) ... Here is McCotter's original comment on SCHIP, in his usual over-the-top style. If our Republican Party is daunted by the politics of S-CHIP and shrinks from reaffirming its defining principles, social welfare programs will never help poor Americans escape governmental dependence. Instead, the Democrats will continue their push to shackle Americans with a bureaucrat-centered health care system and other insidious forms of governmental dependence; and our Republican Party -- the party of the Great Emancipator -- will not only lose the next election. It will lose its soul.
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