Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Unless Kit Bond Lied To Hannity Yesterday, He's a "No" on Cloture Tomorrow   [Jim Geraghty]

Put Sen. Kit Bond (R., Mo.) in the no pile for cloture tomorrow, if his comments to Sean Hannity are any indication:

BOND: What you call voting the right way, I can assure you, you and I agree on the substance, which is, this bill shouldn't go anywhere...

This, I think, is worthy of debate, and certainly conservatives aren't afraid to debate. We wouldn't have Hannity and Colmes, and I'd miss out on all that fun. But this bill has amnesty in it and a lot of other problems so when the following 60 point — 60 vote cloture and budget points of order come up, I am going to have that opportunity to join with I hope enough people to kill it. We didn't have, obviously, about 64 votes voted for it.

Later on in the conversation, Bond says he voted to bring the bill back to bring "sunshine" to its flaws and for debate.

Between Bond and Nelson, that's two of the Big Eight looking like nays.

06/27 02:25 PMShare