Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has been in Congress for 22 years. And, yet, he’s still a coward. Here he is trying to explain why he voted against a continuing resolution (CR) before he voted for it. A CR is a bill to keep the government operating despite the fact that Congress can’t agree on a budget. Using CR’s is the only way Congress can keep the government’s doors open because the Republicans are crazy and have too much power.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) told his colleagues that his original “no” vote was “chickensh–,” according to members who attended the closed-door meeting.
Rohrabacher said he changed his initial “yes” to “no” on the first CR vote because he saw that most of his fellow Orange County colleagues had opposed the measure and he didn’t want to attract Tea Party criticism.
He called his action “cowardly” and promised to support the revised spending bill.
In the end, Rohrabacher and his three Orange County colleagues, Reps. John Campbell (R-Calif.), Gary Miller (R-Calif.) and Ed Royce (R-Calif.), supported the next measure,
Mind you, the Republicans control the House. We’re talking about a Republican getting primaried by the Tea Party for voting with his own Speaker. Actually, we’re not talking about that. We’re talking about the mere possibility that that might happen.
