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applegrove

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Wed Dec 3, 2014, 10:05 PM Dec 2014

“Speaker Ted Cruz” is back, right on schedule, to make John Boehner’s life a nightmare

“Speaker Ted Cruz” is back, right on schedule, to make John Boehner’s life a nightmare

by Jim Newell at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2014/12/03/speaker_ted_cruz_is_back_right_on_schedule_to_make_john_boehners_life_a_nightmare/

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Cruz will join King and outgoing Rep. Michele Bachmann this afternoon for a press conference calling for a new strategy: a short-term continuing resolution — presumably for the funding of the entire government, not just DHS — that “includes language defunding the implementation of the president’s executive action on amnesty.”

So that’s where things are: in the most predictable possible place after the leadership thought it could get away with offering up a bloodless opportunity to “vent.” Boehner can afford 18 defections, assuming Nancy Pelosi can withhold Democratic support — something that she’ll probably try to do now that it’s clear there’s another opportunity to humiliate John Boehner’s leadership in the offing. Politico reports that there are already a dozen Republican “no” votes for the (kill me, again) “cromnibus + dumb protest vote” plan, and “that dissent appears to be spreading.” That’s just Speaker Ted Cruz and his loyal deputy Steve King working their magic, like they always do.

Even with all of these new, predictable problems, though, it would be shocking if there was a shutdown when funding runs out Dec. 11. Nothing gets lawmakers more focused on wrapping up business than the idea of having to work into their next recess.

But it would be equally shocking to see the leadership’s plan, as is, survive. There are going to have to be modifications, if only for conservatives to show that they were able to extract modifications. Having to discard the omnibus package funding the government until next September entirely might be a step too far for Boehner and the heavyweights on the appropriations committee. That would be an extraordinary defeat for the leadership, and punt the entirety of the government funding debate — instead of just the debate over funding DHS — into next year.




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here's their official congressional photograph spanone Dec 2014 #1
Talk about "separation of powers" why is a "senator" meddling with House?!1 n/t UTUSN Dec 2014 #2
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