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Sic Semper Tyrannis!
Where were your conservative republicans from 2000-2006 when the GOP doubled the debt? They were forced to go along with Bush/Delay. Here is a little explanation on how things worked back then:
DeLay was known to "primary" Republicans who resisted his votes (i.e., to threaten to endorse and to support a Republican primary challenge to the disobedient representative.)
Employing a method known as "catch and release," DeLay allowed centrist or moderately conservative Republicans to take turns voting against controversial bills. If a representative said that a bill was unpopular in his district, then DeLay would ask him to vote for it only if his vote were necessary for passage; if his vote were not needed, then the representative would be able to vote against the party without reprisal.
What a lot of you don't know about is the games that are played in Washington. You all seem to understand they are all liars but then here you are believing they are sincere with their votes. It's amazing to me.
Don't kid yourself. Both sides do it. The foolish person is the one that smugly says, "I don't care about party, I vote for the person."
The truth is that people in Congress vote party line more than 80% of the time. Even the "real Independent" people. If they are from a "safe" district, then you can increase that to over 95% of the time.