House Republicans tried a fresh strategy Wednesday night: Go it alone on a spending bill.<\/p>\n
The result was an embarrassing setback.<\/p>\n
Wednesday night\u2019s rank-and-file rebuke of GOP leadership \u2014 with 48 Republicans bolting on a temporary spending bill \u2014 underscored the fact that the House Republican majority is still struggling to find unity on major spending bills. It also showed they still need Democratic votes to help them govern.<\/p>\n
The pressure from an angry Speaker John Boehner didn\u2019t work \u2014 he even threatened to strip committee assignments. Four dozen Republicans \u2014mostly conservatives \u2014 wanted more cuts, and they just said no, creating an uncomfortable scene on the House floor as the funding bill failed on a 195-230 vote. Democrats showed a rare moment of unity in overwhelmingly opposing the continuing resolution, which would keep the government funded through Nov. 18.<\/p>\n
Now, to prevent a government shutdown, Republicans will have to rewrite the bill and figure out how to get the votes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Which means that he’s going to have to drop the offsetting cuts for the disaster relief, and come up with a bill to appeal to the Democrats, at least about 25 or so of them anyway.<\/p>\n
The inmates are running the asylum, when Boehner should be the adult in charge.<\/p>\n
Have you ever though how f%$#ing terrifying it is to think of a situation where a chain smoking tanaholic sot with the brains of a turnip like him has to be the adult in the room?<\/p>\n
And he is 3rd<\/sup> in line to be the President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I mean, of course John Boehner. It’s not because he’s an evil ratf%$#, I think that Newt has him beat on that particular qualification, but rather because he is completely unable to manage his caucus: House Republicans tried a fresh strategy Wednesday night: Go it alone on a spending bill. The result was an embarrassing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1020,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}