Posted on 09/23/2011 7:48:34 AM PDT by radioone
House Republicans will meet on Thursday afternoon to discuss their options to move forward on a short-term bill to fund the federal government that their party failed to pass a day earlier.
In private, Boehner has grown tired of what he dismissively calls the "know-it-alls who have all the right answers."
House leadership aides said leaders were leaning toward moving a clean CR with Democratic votes in order to get it through the Senate and allow Congress to recess in time for its scheduled break next week.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
Of course they have all the right answers. They're using our founding documents. Boner could learn from them.
The CR Passed after midnight last night.
After releasing the amdent on the House Rules Committee website at 8:09pm EST, they held the vote at 00:50 this morning (yes, that's ten minutes 'til 1 AM).
If we wanted "secret bills" passed after midnight, we could have kept Pelosi in charge.
I'm also beginning to believe that the whole failed vote Wednesday night was an attempt to discredit and embarrass the TEA Partiers who opposed the bill (the ones that voted against it still, after the $0.1 billion pinprick aimed at Obama's green energy slush fund).
Time to support the primary challenger. This was not time to re group, it was time to reload. Instead, we get the usual flip flop back to business as usual. At this rate, every time Harry the turd farts, Boehner will not even lite a match or so it seems. Weed, er Reed is not running this show much longer as he will be gone in 14 months along with his majority so why go along now to make them look good. This was a legitimate reason to bounce the green cars unless of course Beohner believes that is a winner for him.
From what I read, it was removed and Dingy Harry is up in arms about it.
I agree. Actually, I posted on another thread about this. We need to find primary challengers who:
Mouton wrote:
Time to support the primary challenger. This was not time to re group, it was time to reload. Instead, we get the usual flip flop back to business as usual. At this rate, every time Harry the turd farts, Boehner will not even lite a match or so it seems. Weed, er Reed is not running this show much longer as he will be gone in 14 months along with his majority so why go along now to make them look good. This was a legitimate reason to bounce the green cars unless of course Beohner believes that is a winner for him.
Reid will be there for over 5 more years. I hope not as "Majority leader," but as part of the Democrat leadership in the minority. But there's no way to remove him before 2016. He just won his seat again in 2010.
No, the bill that passed after midnight was the same as the one Wedenesday night, with one additional amendment (link is PDF of the amendment). They took away $0.1 billion from the green engery slush fund that loaned Solyndra the $0.535 billion. That's it. And 24 of the 48 that voted against the thing on Wedenesday night bought that solution. They alegedly were upset over $24 billion (annually, which was actually about $3.23 billion over the 7 weeks), but for a measley $0.1 billion that might be a bit embarassing to the White House, they were bought off. I don't buy that.
concerned about politics wrote:
Did Oboma get his 1.5 in green slush, or did they manage to get that part removed?
I'm about to write piece about the 24 infiltrators who did this. I'm pretty sure Boehner and Cantor wanted the negative press for the TEA Partiers, and they scheduled the vote Wednesday specifically so they could lose and the media ruling class propaganda ministry would blame the TEA Party for the looming government shutdown.
Boehner, Cantor and the rest of the leadership do not like the TEA Party. They spent millions from their "leadership PACs" in the 2010 primary season to defeat many of the TEA party candidates (and trying to defeat others like Rand Paul).
“We’ll just fall back a little and then regroup!”
“We’ll just fall back a little more and then regroup!”
“We’ll just fall back a little bit more and then regroup!”
“We’ll just fall back a little tad more and then regroup!”
“We’ll just lose this battle and then regroup!”
“We’ll just keep losing these battles and then regroup and win!”
“Sooner or later, if we just keep retreating, we are bound to win!”
“Eventually they will get so sick of beating us that they will let us win a little!”
“Any year now, if we keep giving them concessions and doing what they want, they may let us at least keep a little of our dignity!”
“If they keep this up, maybe someday soon we will put our foot down, and I am that foot!”
“Okay, we unexpectedly lost everything, and now the country is a disaster beyond repair. Clearly they have won the war, but at least we have a moral victory!”
If the true Conservatives and Tea Party participants do not cut federal spending and cave to business as usual crowd, they lose credibility.
Let the Left shut down the government regardless of who gets blamed and let the chips fall where they may. Then at least the TP will have retained credibility.
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