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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums“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 Boehners life a nightmareby 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 presidents executive action on amnesty.
So thats 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 shell probably try to do now that its clear theres another opportunity to humiliate John Boehners 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. Thats 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 leaderships 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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“Speaker Ted Cruz” is back, right on schedule, to make John Boehner’s life a nightmare (Original Post)
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(135,633 posts)1. here's their official congressional photograph
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(70,496 posts)2. Talk about "separation of powers" why is a "senator" meddling with House?!1 n/t