Just click through and read the whole “the hill” story.
There are some classic Castle moments. For example, how many times have we seen him this kind of courageous stand on a bil?
“Even voting for it, I was 51-49 percent because I never was convinced that was a particularly good piece of legislation,” Castle said.
Vintage Castle right there. “I voted for it, but it was flawed.” will be engraved on his tombstone. The thing is – this time his buddy John Bohenr is calling his lying ass out.
GOP leaders tell a different story.
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) says that he did talk to Castle about voting no on the Democrats’ cap-and-trade bill.
And a GOP leadership aide familiar with the Republican whipping effort said, “Mr. Castle and his office were contacted a number of times and were whipped throughout the week. Leadership received the same answer with every conversation and contact: Mr. Castle was a ‘yes’ vote on the cap-and-trade legislation.”
The Republican staffer said leadership asked Castle to “hold his vote until the very end of the 15-minute vote to make passage of this legislation harder for the Democrats. Curiously for an undecided member, he was one of the first Republicans” to register his support on the floor.
Burning bridges in the house, Castle then makes a head-fake toward the Senate.
The Senate, Castle said, has a lot of appeal. “You’re one of 100, and if you want to get something done, the likelihood goes up tremendously,” he said. “I think that one individual can actually make a difference.”
Castle has not set a firm timetable, but said he must make a final decision “pretty soon.
What a joke.