GOP Freshmen say they’re behind Boehner’s debt plan urge tea partiers to see what’s good in it

[florida08]

15 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — The House Republican freshmen who helped win the House majority for their party say they’ll vote yes later Thursday on the GOP plan to raise the debt limit.

More than a dozen of the GOP rookies told reporters that virtually all of the 87-member class is now behind Speaker John Boehner’s plan. Most of the freshmen said they’d only decided to vote yes in the last few days.

Key to their decision, they said, was a commitment to hold a vote on a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. And they bristled at the notion by tea party activists that the bill, and their support for it, is a compromise that amounts to failure.

To the contrary, replied New York Republican Ann Marie Buerkle. She said that compromise is leadership.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-freshmen-say-theyre-behind-boehners-debt-plan-urge-tea-partiers-to-see-whats-good-in-it/2011/07/28/gIQAinW3eI_story.html

[brer cat]

1. So are these the votes they needed to pass the boner bill?

[florida08]

2. possibly

it's to put pressure on the tea party...marginalize them

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. They are certainly going to pass Boehner's revised bill

Which has been clear all along. They are going to try to put the screws to the Senate Democrats. This time, I don't see the Senate Dems budging. Or, they bring it up with so many poison pill amendments that the House GOP has to either fold or reject the thing completely. The notion that Boehner's revised bill will clear the Senate in the form it clears the House is laughable.

With the Balanced Budget Amendment OUT, it's a pretty big loss for the Tea Party nuts already.

[florida08]

4. don't seeing it passing in the Senate either

[nenagh]

5. I hope the Dems hold the line on Medicare etc..etc..

The Repubs really want cover for the Ryan budget and all those seniors complaining before the 2012 election...

The rest is misdirection, I think..