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That is by being large and counting as sane every body who did not vote for H J Res 99, disapproval of the Presidents exercise of authority to suspend the debt limit, as submitted under section 1002(b) of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 on October 17, 2013
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll570.xml
4 voted NO: Dent, Heck (NV), King, and shockingly Darryl Issa.
2 voted present: Massie and Ribble (I have to take Massie off the list as he voted against lifting the ceiling, so I am unsure what he objected to)
5 did not vote. (3 of those voted NO on debt ceiling, so unsane as well)
Every single other one, including quite a few who voted for the debt ceiling increase (some of whom are now called moderate, like Rigell). (Well Boehner did not vote, but the entire leadership voted for the bill).
[I refuse to count those who voted to sink the country as sane]
TPM has the list of the 79 Republicans who voted to disapprove their own vote.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/house-republicans-disapprove-of-their-own-votes-to-lift-debt-ceiling
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)4 of those who did not vote or voted present voted against the debt ceiling in the first place, so they cannot be called sane.
This is a limited pool of sane Republicans, I am afraid. If a YES vote is an effort to placate the Tea Party, I doubt it will work.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)I know Issa is shocking.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)Issa doesn't strike me as sane...