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Deace Show Podcast 06-06-12

Hour 1: Plenty of analysis of the Wisconsin Recall election, what it means and what happens next…with the author of “Mobocracy,” Jake Jacobs.

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Hour 2:  Can Christian values help a business owner’s bottom-line?  Joel Manby, former CEO of Saab on his new book Love Works, which talks about the value of instilling Christian principles into the workplace.

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Hour 3: Worldview Wednesday looks at Ron Paul’s recent vote against a ban on sex-selective child killing, specifically the conflict between states’ rights and inalienable (God-given) rights.

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  • Pete Sand

    Steve,

    Catching up on weekends like I normally do.  Had no idea this vote was going to happen–what a momentous vote!

    I’m not “inside” enough to know the dynamics involved in this vote, but I have the following overly suspicious reaction.  You need 218 votes to pass legislation in the house.  This legislation on sex-selection-abortion, got 226 republican votes (enough to pass), plus 20 democratic votes, for a total of 246 votes, or 28 votes more than necessary.  Yet the legislation did not pass.

    Then you look more closely, and see that this was couched as a motion to suspend the rules and adopt the proposed legislation without considering any amendments.  Such a motion requires 2/3 approval by the membership, or 290 votes.

    FIRST, I am wondering, why was this approach taken?  Was this a faux-pro life effort set up for failure by only seeking to pass this legislation in a way that took 2/3 vote?  Once this vote failed, why didn’t the legislation go back to a regular process of offering and arguing over amendments with a final vote on the merits? Is this real?  Or a sham?

    SECOND, Everyone should know about the republicans who voted against this.  They are:  Justin Amash of Michigan, Charlie Bass of New Hampshire, Mary Bono of California, Robert Dold of Illinois, Richard Hanna of New York, Nan Hayworth of New York, and Ron Paul of Texas.  Amash is a poster-boy for the tea party movement–a young person sprung from the grass roots of people outraged at the spending our government has done under Obama.  Listening to tea partiers, while they are always careful to avoid directly addressing social issues, one often has the impression that they are conservative in all areas.  This vote at least tells us a lot on that particular point.  There are several tea partiers who are just not going to do anything about abortion or other issues tearing this country apart.  Amash endorsed Ron Paul in the presidential primary.  Several of these folks (Bono, Bass, Hanna, Hayworth) are your typical RINOs from liberal states.  But Amash and Dold, and Paul, are shocking votes on this question.

    THIRD, Eight republicans failed to vote at all on this bill.  I think that they should explain why.  The eight are:  Dan Burton of Indiana, Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, Frank Guinta of New Hampshire, Jerry Lewis of California, Connie Mack of Florida, Kevin McCarthy of California, Martha Roby of Alabama, and Bill Young of Florida.  Why isn’t Kevin McCarthy, the house majority whip, not voting on important legislation?

    A very disappointing vote.  This should be passed and in the senate causing grief to democrats and RINOs there.

    Great show

    Pete 

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