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BREAKING: NM Impeachment Resolution Killed Before Debate on Senate Floor; 9 Democrats Vote With Republicans to Prevent DebateI just got a phone call reporting this and I don't yet know what the vote was. However, SJR 5, New Mexico's impeachment resolution, was killed when it failed to get the votes necessary to move to the Senate Floor for debate. So it didn't even get a discussion by the Senate, the very least that could be expected from a legislative body dominated by Democrats. I don't know exactly who voted against debating the resolution or who was absent, but I'll report that when I get it. I did hear that 5 or 6 8 Democratic Senators voted against debating the measure.
UPDATE 3:55 PM: I just got the names of the nine Democrats who voted not to accept the Do Pass of the Senate Judiciary Committee, thus preventing the resolution from being debated on the Senate Floor.
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I hope they hear from plenty of their constituents and Democrats everywhere. If Democrats won't even allow something this timely and critical to our nation's future to be DEBATED, why do they call themselves Democrats? What this shows me is that these 8 men have only disrespect for all the hundreds and hundreds of our citizens who traveled to Santa Fe on their own dimes, spent hours in the Roundhouse, made phone calls, sent emails, shot video and audio, spoke personally to legislators, spread the word and worked so hard on this effort. They knew they had the votes to ensure the measure failed on the Senate Floor but they chose to kill it early, joining an anti-democratic Republican technical maneuver to make sure no debate took place. To me, what they did is the complete antithesis of representative democracy and an affront to the power of the people.
I can understand some of these Dems from conservative districts voting against the bill on the Senate Floor. What I can't forgive is the eight of them voting to stop the people's voices from being represented on there. They silenced those who disagreed with them. Is there a worse example of anti-democratic behavior?
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Sorry about this folks. Whatever your feelings on impeachment are, this is one more sign that the most pathetic executive administration in the history of the country continues to skirt responsibility and get away with nonsense and insanity while the rest of the country hesitates.
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Some of these are the same ones who vote against equal rights for all, ethics reform, meaningful minimum wage laws and so much else that they apparently see as a threat to their crooked kingdoms.
I can understand Smith and Jennings. They come from conservative places. But the rest? Nothing but gangsters, true to their own mob mentality and the rich lobbyists who pamper them and noone else. They are crooks plain and simple and yet they pretend to be devout in their religion. This vote to kill even DISCUSSION on the bill is truly awful. We need to get these people out of the Democratic Party. They are a rot from the inside.
Posted by: Disgusted Democrat | Mar 8, 2007 4:49:50 PM
Maybe we should run a green candidate against them? Especially the ones from liberal districts. They have no excuse. I hope they are hissed every time they are seen.
Posted by: Coyote | Mar 8, 2007 4:59:32 PM
I could accept if they let it go to the floor and then felt they had to vote against it. But to kill it like this is really really bad. Its like spitting in the face of the people who care so much about Bush and the war. Arrogant.
Posted by: El Norte | Mar 8, 2007 5:03:44 PM
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