Friday, May 29, 2009

Extraordinary politics as usual

One legislator's name came to mind--"Hank" Fincher, when I read this statement from David Fowler (of Family Action Council of Tennessee):
And the Senate Republicans didn’t believe the House would accept a true election bill which, of course, we’ll never know for sure since they really didn’t have to vote on a bill that only did just that. And you never know because legislators have been known to rail against bills then vote for them if voting against them is not politically smart election-wise. And voting against letting people vote on something as important as their Supreme Court judges could be something an election-year opponent may just love to talk a lot about.
(emphasis mine) Fincher voted AGAINST commission-based selection of judges on Thursday, after voting and speaking in favor of commission-based selection of judges at every turn during this session (here).

I'm amazed that someone as outspoken as Fincher would think he could get away with this. That's a whole new level of disingenuous.




Hat tip, Post Politics

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