{"id":185857,"date":"2014-07-31T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/31\/the-republicans-have-completely-screwed-the-pooch\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T02:01:00","slug":"the-republicans-have-completely-screwed-the-pooch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/31\/the-republicans-have-completely-screwed-the-pooch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republicans Have Completely Screwed the Pooch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 394px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:24eb2766-ed01-11e0-aca6-0026b9414f30\" width=\"384\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Here&#8217;s a Blast from the Past<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Because John Boehner could not put an child refugees bill that a single Democrat could vote for, and because cannot count Republican votes, he had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2014\/07\/31\/border-spending-bill-divide\/13405739\/\">pull the bill from the floor, and delay the Congressional recess<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">House Republicans are poised to delay their August recess by one day, as they frantically scramble to pass a border security bill.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After a chaotic afternoon, which saw the GOP leadership suddenly pull their legislation from the House floor because of flagging support, lawmakers planned a Friday morning meeting at 9 a.m. to try to plot a path forward. Plans are in flux, and subject to change at any minute, aides and lawmakers warned.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a Thursday afternoon meeting, Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) heard from a number of Republicans who did not want to leave Washington until a package passed the House \u2014 a sentiment reflected by nearly every lawmaker who emerged after the meeting ended.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last time a Republican politician shortened a vacation, it was W coming back early from vacation to sign the Terry Sciavo bill, (see Vid) and we all know how the politics on all of <b>that<\/b> played out.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this clusterf%$# does not bode well for the Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase Napoleon, never stop your enemy when is busy stepping on his own dick.<\/p>\n<p>I am still worried a bit&nbsp; about the collateral damage to the rest of us though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a Blast from the Past Because John Boehner could not put an child refugees bill that a single Democrat could vote for, and because cannot count Republican votes, he had to pull the bill from the floor, and delay the Congressional recess: House Republicans are poised to delay their August recess by one day, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1053,1020,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-immigration","category-legislation","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185857"}],"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=185857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}