Cassidy who would like to defeat U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and move to the U.S. Senate has failed the basic voting test when he voted to shut down the U.S. government. His intentions are to make that body like the U.S. House and therefore both houses of congress can be the party of NO. The democratic controlled Senate passed the CR to open back up the U.S. government 81-18. Enough republicans in the Senate joined the majority democrats to pass the legislature.
Voting against the CR or voting NO besides Cassidy was Steve Scalise, David Viter, and John Fleming, all from Louisiana. Voting for the CR to open the government was Mary Landrieu, Cedric Richmond and Charles Bustany a republican. Enough republicans in the House along with the democrats who supplied the majority vote passed the CR and the government re opened.
Cassidy was one of 80 republicans who wrote a letter to their republicans in congress urging them to vote against anything that did not defund the ACA. Cassidy did not care enough about the country or its people or putting the government back to work. All he cared about was wounding the President and attacking legislation already on the books.
This writer does not think Cassidy deserves a chance to bring his obstruction to the U.S. Senate. Elected officials should debate and vote on the issues and not act immature when the vote does not go their way and then threaten government functions. Mary Landrieu took the CR seriously and cast a yes vote. Cassidy followed his party's line to not do anything that would help the President. Senator Landrieu has a record of not being a ditto head and has never voted to shut the government down. If Bill Cassidy can not support the government he works for he should return to his medical practice full time and make way for serious public servants.
Representative Cassidy has failed to take care of the people's business in the very same House his party controls. The U.S. Senate does not need another ditto head republican, especially one who obstructs the political process.
This commentary written by John Lucia
