Spine Check
Talking tough, voting soft
Statement: Strong rhetoric on camera.
Action: Quiet compliance when it counted.
Outcome: The rhetoric remains. The record doesn’t.
Action: Quiet compliance when it counted.
Outcome: The rhetoric remains. The record doesn’t.
Spine Card
Person: [Name] — [Office]
Statement date: YYYY-MM-DD
Action date: YYYY-MM-DD
Outcome: What materially happened
Statement date: YYYY-MM-DD
Action date: YYYY-MM-DD
Outcome: What materially happened
What was said
“I will never support this.”
What happened
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Voted in favor / abstained / enabled passage.
Why it matters
This isn’t about hypocrisy as a personality flaw. It’s about how performative opposition becomes functional support.
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