He may be a Republican, and he may be anti-abortion, but Louisiana Representative Joseph Cao stood abandoned a part of the Republicans and did the appropriate affair for those who adopted him in Louisiana, in an breadth that has one of the accomplished ante of abjection in the nation: He was the abandoned Republican to vote for the healthcare ameliorate bill in the House.
Said Cao, “I accept consistently said that I would put abreast accessory altercation to do the business of the people. My vote tonight was based on my antecedence of accomplishing what is best for my constituents.”
As appear by the Huffington Post, “In the past, Cao has been accustomed by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) as ‘the future’ of the GOP. Republicans acutely went the ambit to accumulate him in the bend for the bloom affliction vote. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who promised protesters at a Tea Party assemblage this anniversary that ‘not one Republican will vote for this bill,’ was continuing beside Cao as the celebrated vote unfolded.”
As far as Cao getting “the approaching of the GOP” . . . afterwards tonight, accepting fabricated a cheat out of Eric Cantor, I’m academic not so much. Republicans, as we know, accept no allowance in the covering for anyone who doesn’t toe the Party band – they don’t like “right,” they alone like Right. Afterwards all, Representative Joe Wilson became a bourgeois hero afterwards yelling, “You lie!” at the President in September. This vote by Cao no agnosticism makes him worse than a RINO in the Republicans’ eyes – he’ll accompany the ranks of Colin Powell and others who’ve torn rank to do the appropriate affair and accept been castigated by the right.
Listen, Cao – if the Republicans casting you out, there’s consistently allowance in the Democratic covering for you