GOPolitics

That GOP pressured and monkeyed vote that means the FBI can snoop into your library records without your knowledge (among other things) brings our old friend Nick Smith back into focus.

One of the vote switchers was Rep. Nick Smith of Michigan, who resisted pressure to switch during the extra three hours that GOP leaders held open the Medicare vote. He said at the time that he had been bribed and threatened, and then recanted the claim.

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I'm thinking I may have given old Nick too much credit the first time for trying to buck the GOP machine. Maybe he was after something selfish after all. I mean, if he's going to bend over at the last minute each time, why doesn't he just save himself the pressure stress and vote the party line in the first place? Masochistic? Wants to be begged? Power trip?

....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.