Another Republican reader writes to point out that Eric Massa just voted for pay-as-you-go financing and against increasing the national debt.
Take a good look at that PAYGO vote. Not a single member of the "party of fiscal responsibility" voted for PAYGO.
Republicans are running the House like the House of Commons. They vote as a block, and they vote against the majority party, no matter if that vote is consistent with their principles. Along will all the other problems Tom Reed has, this is a big one. Republican enforcement of party line voting means that he has to give us a really good explanation of when and how he'll choose principle over party.
(I do understand that the debt ceiling vote was split to allow members to vote for PAYGO and for raising the debt ceiling. If anyone thinks that little footnote will keep Democrats from making this a campaign issue, you must be smoking something stronger than John Boehner's Barclay's.)
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As a Republican, I cannot say that I am not surprised. So it goes.
"I cannot say that I am not surprised." Now that is a disciplined party.