Boehner Plan Faces G.O.P. Resistance and Veto Threat

[BlueState]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders Tuesday made increasingly frenzied pleas to their members to approve a plan to temporarily raise the nation’s debt ceiling, but passage seemed in growing doubt. The White House reiterated that it strongly opposed the bill and that President Obama’s advisers would recommend a veto should it somehow pass the House and Senate.




Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/us/politics/27fiscal.html

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So the Tea Party chickens are coming home to roost.

[brooklynite]

1. Gee, no Republican support for the Republican proposal?

Boy, who could have seen that coming?

[Volaris]

2. yep, and if they don't learn real quick-like what it is to betray their "base"

for the sake of political survival, they are going to learn come next November that the American Peoples' Wrath giveth, and that Wrath taketh away heehee

[Renew Deal]

3. Why would Boehner put his caucus through a vote for a bill that will never pass?

The senate will vote against it and Obama would veto anyway. It's a waste of time.

[Liberalynn]

5. They are just doing it for show IMHO

I really believe they are just going straight out for default.

[BlueState]

11. Yea I think he's painted himself into a corner

I've thought it a dangerous game they have been playing from the very beginning. If they refuse to compromise every step of the way, essentially saying "My way or the highway" what do they do when opponents, on both sides opt for the highway.

The tough talk makes compromise with face saving impossible.

They'd rather take a political posture than find a real solution or do what is best for the country.

I sure hope the next election corrects this overreach. I fear it won't though.

[emulatorloo]

7. A show to appeal to their base.

[renegade2011]

10. "Political theater" = MASTURBATION

See, this is fun to watch:

1. The pluto/kleptocrats (Koch etc.) create the Teabaggers, as a way to re-brand the stupidest/most delusional on the Right.

2. Teabaggers get a *small* taste of power (due mostly to depressed voter turnout among people who SHOULD have known better), and proceed to enact horrible policies.

3. Corporate Kleptocrats (who will be harmed if "debt" ceiling is not raised) are unable to actually control the monster they themselves created and unleashed.

4. Teabaggers destroy U.S./global economy, and finally, totally discredit Right-wing idiocy once and for all.

To paraphrase a certain South Park episode: "Awk-waaaaard!" :)

[brooklynite]

4. UPDATE - RSC chair: Boehner doesn't have the votes for plan

from Politico:

Chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), says the votes aren't there for Speaker John Boehner to pass his debt-ceiling plan, unless he turns to Democrats for help.

“I am confident, as of this morning, that there were not 218 Republicans in support of the plan,” Jordan told reporters Tuesday when asked how many other House conservatives oppose the speaker’s plan.

Can we have the next act, please?

[Liberalynn]

6. Dems should tell him they will only vote for Senator Harry's plan

and only then if the commission part on cuts to SS. and Medicare is totally nixed. No stupid commisions period.

[emulatorloo]

8. They have: WH/OMB has now issued veto threat on Boehner deficit bill.

ON EDIT: getting correct link

[Liberalynn]

9. Hope the White House stands firm on this

[BlueState]

12. Can we count on the blue dogs to do the right thing?

[florida08]

17. cross your fingers ..toes..eyes

He may pick up some votes from the 25 fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats, but just 5 crossed the line last week to support Cut, Cap and Balance.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20083455-503544.html

[BlueState]

13. Thanks for the update

This is going to be interesting.

[florida08]

16. Shut the front door!

[Kingofalldems]

14. Haha--Noted 'expert' Luke Russell claimed yesterday

that Boehner's plan will be the 'only one standing' by today.

[AlinPA]

15. Boehner was aiming for default from the beginning. All this crap about not being able to control

the teabaggers was just that, crap. He is 100% bought in to the teabagger politics.

[TomCADem]

18. So Pathetic Its Almost Funny - Tea Partiers Will Need To Break Their CCB Pledges

To pass a bill that will die in the Senate or get vetoed.