This Is Why We Never Know Where Politicians Stand

J.J. Jackson* | February 15, 2007

Ever wonder why it is so hard to tell what politicians actually believe? Here’s the reason.

Warner pressing Senate on war vote

Chicago Tribune
Hoping to force a Senate vote on the Iraq war, Virginia Sen. John Warner has filed an amendment attaching his nonbinding resolution opposing a troop surge to a must-pass spending bill needed to avoid a government shut-down.

This happens all the time in Washington. People attach all sorts of crap to other bills that it makes it almost impossible to pass legislation without voting for something else you completely disagree with.

Every bill should be able to stand on its own and the practice of attaching unrelated amendments to bills should be ended. But if we did that then it wouldn’t be possible for political hacks to claim that someone was in favor (or not in favor) of issue XYZ because a politician voted for (or against) a bill that had some stupid rider attached to it by another politician just looking to get support for a bill that couldn’t pass on its own.

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