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Disgusted with House Republicans, Senate Announces ‘We’re Done’
Several times a day I find myself feeling sorry for John Boehner. The man really did try.
But now this humiliation from the Senate:
“The House Republicans have two choices: cut their losses and pass the deal now, or else put up a fight they cannot win and pass the same deal a few days now after being further humiliated,” a Senate Democratic leadership aide told The Hill. Furthermore:
Another senior Democratic aide said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will not reconsider the bill, which passed by a vote of 89 to 8. “We’re done,” said the aide.
House Republicans tossed their incomplete homework to the Senate, after realizing that they didn’t have the votes for Boehner’s Plan B and they were too divided to cope with it like grown ups.
Fix it, Senate! They demanded. And so the Senate did. Senators from both sides of the aisle worked hard on the deal, agreed to early this morning. It passed with a clear majority vote of 89-8. It is being referred to as the McConnell/White House deal and 40 out of 45 Republicans voted for the Senate bill. These facts indicate that the House rejection of the bill is really off kilter.
The House Republicans who are not tea party members realized that their failure to pass Plan B meant the deal would suit Democrats more than Republicans, since the Senate has a Democratic majority. That is why Boehner’s failure to get the votes for Plan B was such a disaster. The tea party caucus is apparently too clueless to understand this and were unwilling to take advice from folks who’ve been around much longer than they have (the first sign of staggering arrogance meeting stupefying incompetence).
The Senate is done playing preschool with the tea party caucus and the impotent leaders of the House. The House is so blinded by crazy that they can’t see what they’re walking into; if they wait until the new congress comes in, they will have even fewer Republican votes. In other words, when they spit in John Boehner’s face, they ran right into the Democrats’ wall.
Republicans are going to be blamed for the impending disaster. John Boehner knows this, but there’s no talking to tea.
Update: 7:18 PM House just recessed, are coming back tonight. They will be in until 2AM. Rumors are that they may not have the votes for their spending amendment.
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D. W. Skinner
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 6:48 pm
The Republicans are committing public suicide. So..grab your popcorn and a soft drink and enjoy the show!
Robhound
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 9:22 pm
I’ve been watching the show and enjoying it. However, what still baffles me is the state of denial that so many Republicans are in and the irrational, misleading party-line rhetoric that the rest of the Republicans buy into. (I cannot, in good conscience call them conservatives, because they’ve been anything but that.)
john
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 10:16 pm
Soft drink? No way… I’m going to get blasted and hoot and holler! This is sublime.
M.R.M
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 6:54 pm
pee on the tee! bonehead is done! “i just cant wait for 2014!”
Jonah
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 7:40 pm
If you look at the 2010 redistricting the Republican controlled state legislatures did to insure control you’ll probably be waiting until more like 2024.
robyn ryan
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 9:53 pm
gerrymandering depends on the past. People change, die, move.
4 years down the road, all that work may mean nothing.
Middle Molly
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 2:50 am
I really honestly think that, even with the gerrymandered districts, it is possible for the Dems to retake the House in 2014. But it means planning, careful evaluation of what Repub seats are winnable…. and that planning needs to start NOW.
M.R.M
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 10:12 am
ya but its the starting point, for the ship to turn!
sarah mangan
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 7:05 pm
about time somebody threw out the teabag the tea it’s making is stale and weak
RMuse
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 7:18 pm
Hopefully there’s not too much celebration because we’ve got two full years of teabagger House to suffer. This is the result of 2010 and all the Dems and professional left preaching to stay home to punish Obama. Unfortunately, like the RWNJs, when you emos punished President Obama, you’ve punish America.
robyn ryan
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 9:55 pm
But think of the fun watching Grayson and friends tear them a new one on the House floor!
Middle Molly
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 2:51 am
I so, so agree… The uber-lefties are often as clueless as the TeaPeople.
Deborah Stuart
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 7:20 pm
Why can’t we impeach them? Democrats didn’t vote for them, they must have had Norquist and Rove buy them for them! Isn’t this considered Treason against the Americans that have had to put up with them for 4 years?
Churchlady
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 9:14 pm
Seriously? This is what passes for good policy on OUR side?
No.
djchefron
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 10:34 pm
I understand your frustration but please get this silly notion of impeachment out of your head.According to the constitution,grants the House the power to impeach “The President, the Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States.” Members of congress are considered not civil officers.Some people say otherwise but there is no precedent supporting that.The closest a sitting member came to impeachment was in the 1780′s and the Senate through it out saying there was no constitutional basis for the action.
Reynardine
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 10:35 pm
Congresscritters don’t get impeached. It takes a vote of two thirds of the chamber to refuse to seat one.
stumptownhero
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 10:55 pm
See also EXPULSION!
Michael Humphrey
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 7:26 pm
Does anyone here not see the disgrace here in the fact that the Republicans have failed to pass a tax bill for the last four years now (seeing that the Republicans were re-elected to a second term as the house majority)especially when one considers that all tax bills are originated in the house of representatives as according to the U.S. constitution ?
Does anyone see the senate is practically doing the job of the house and worst of all Harry Reid has gotten full bipartisan support for both tax bills passed in the senate ?
It’s a DISGRACE.
savageDOG
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 7:32 pm
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VOTING REPUBLICAN
and being the core problem of why we are where we are; wall street /bankers thefts @ taxpayer costs= it’s them, big corporations reducing hours to deny benefits= cost of taxpayer to feed and tend sick, the”baining” of US companies for profit to rebuild overseas= Americans out of work and on unemployment….all our ills can be tracked to their collective doors.
Patrick Piklapp
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 7:36 pm
After two years of the House teabagging the American voters, you would think that they would have learned something by now. I guess it is true that those who forget history tend to repeat it.
KatzKids
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 11:57 pm
Ah yes, but baggers would have had to learn something about History in order to forget it. They just refuse to learn anything they don’t like in the first place. They prefer to twist & cherry pick history & when that fails, they just make it up. Exactly like they do with “their literal bibles.”
Reynardine
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 8:33 pm
The latest is that the House has decided to give in and pass the bill.
Shiva (Moderator)
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 9:14 pm
House GOP Folds, Will Allow Vote On Senate Cliff Deal
1voice1vote
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 8:42 pm
To the teahadist “House of the Rising Sun”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d...
Moondazed
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 9:53 pm
In my opinion the most important cause to back is removing the redistricting bs and removing gerrymandering from the equation.
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/po...
Brigita Petrutis
Jan. 1st, 2013 at 10:40 pm
In my humble opinion, I think this may be the catalyst for major changes in party-politics-as-a-rule. Boehner’s directives have nearly driven all those freshmen (&women) off that cliff. Patriotism aside, these people have political careers to consider! The smart ones will break ranks and either see the light or go off on their own individual rants. Either way, the whole world has seen the dysfunction and disarray, and it is not acceptable. McConnell found a way to save face, too bad Boehner is yet struggling. I understand the pity.
Arayablue
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 12:21 am
Ok…we can’t impeach…but we can hold a coup!! I say….We, the people, should bust in Congress and drag them tea-bagging bums…out!!!
We can do it….!!!
majii
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 1:19 am
Boehner capitulated when he decided to cease negotiating with the president week before last. Plan B was a face saving move that failed. After Plan B failed, the only option Boehner had left was to throw the matter back to the Senate and let McConnell and the dems work out a deal. Anyone who doesn’t know that Boehner threw in the towel a long time ago and was hanging on for dear life while praying fervently for a lifesaver doesn’t want to know it. He did have the good sense to vote for the McConnell/Biden/White House bill, though. I think that the republicans who voted against the bill mainly did so to protect their anti-tax cred. It provides them with a talking point they can carry back to their districts to appease the uninformed who don’t seem to understand that, like a household, a government can’t operate effectively without adequate revenue.
knight4444
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 1:00 pm
See the republican party knew 30 yrs ago that they don’t have a damn thing for the ”common person” the under 100,000 a yr wage earner that’s why they desperately sought the crazy religious right during the southern strategy!! republicans use religious hate and bigotry to secure a voting base. Because if these foolish republican sheep took two seconds to actually look at what the gop offers “THEM” they’d never vote republican!! it’s amazes me how some ignorant hillbilly in Arkansas making under 15,000 a yr will cheerlead for the gop against their own best interest!!! the republican party are masters of mass delusion and finding scared weak minded clowns to support them!! the world either hates america or laughs at us!! thanks to the gop and FUX news!!! tea party idiots are nothing but republicans who couldn’t stand Bush jr. and in 2007 called themselves libertarians!! what a joke!!!
Cc
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 9:08 pm
“it’s amazes me how some ignorant hillbilly in Arkansas making under 15,000 a yr will cheerlead for the gop against their own best interest!!!”
You answered it – and this is why…..
“Republicans use religious hate and bigotry to secure a voting base.”
Dan
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 3:15 pm
“but there’s no talking to tea.”
Reminds me of an old saying, now with a new noun:
“You can always tell a member of the Tea Party… But you can’t tell him much.”
Marilyn
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 10:15 pm
This is global embarrassment at it’s finest!!!!