Posted on 10/16/2013 12:06:53 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
I thought that all revenue bills had to start first in the House of Reps...
Is Reid's move unconstitutional?
What say you?
And what if it fails in the hose at around 11:00 pm tonight?
Now, that would be a show worth watching.
That’s just that silly Constitution, it also says they are supposed to have a budget EVERY year.
Of course it is. Like anyone in Washington cares, though.
Like Hilary says: What Difference does it make.
Nothing these turds have done in the last 5 years has been Constitutional.
But, alas...
The senate or the president can send a proposed bill or budget or can rewrite/modify bills sent from the house back to the house for consideration but approval or disapproval and final say over what the bill will say lies solely with the house.
The house can modify the latest sellout by the senate GOP and chuck it back to the senate for approval or disapproval.
It won’t fail in the house because Bonehead and Cantor have worked
a bad deal with Pelosi. With Rat support, Bonehead will get the Rat votes
He needs to pass it.
Maybe. We’ll see. I’m rooting for a last minute firebombing of the deal. That would be priceless. We’d all wake up tomorrow and the world will have ended while we were sleeping. LOL
If he passes a budget deal that is not supported by the majority of his own caucus, I expect Boehner will resign his speakership in the next few days rather than have his caucus oust him after his capitulation to the Dems.
If all GOP House members vote NO, will the bill pass?
Yes and so was Obamacare. If the GOP leadership had any balls, the response would be ... any and all revenue bills MUST come from the House as per the Constitution. Since Mr. Reid is attempting an unconstitutional power play, the bill will NOT be accepted.
No, if no Republicans voted for it, it would not pass. But the chances of 0 House Republicans voting to pass it are slim to none. Remember, out of all the Republicans that initially started this showdown, 12 of them backed down entirely within one day of the gov’t shutdown. Many other House Republicans are not representing the Tea Party at all and so the probability that the Republicans who are not specifically representing the Tea Party would all vote No is rather low at best.
No, it wouldn’t, but all the House Republicans won’t vote ‘no’.
Don’t get me wrong, I hoping it does not pass either. But the DC elites
will do whatever it takes to pass it. And if that means Bonehead and Cantor
bypassing conservatives and getting rat votes to pass it, that is what they
will do. After all, with the exception of several handful of conservatives, it’s
one big fraternity in DC.
Sad to watch them give in so easily, but they did at least engage in a bit of brinksmanship this time.
I think the EBT snafu is what really made up their mind. That was a shot across the bow and an indication of how far Obama would go if they pushed him on this.
In the end, they feared what the madman would do. So they folded.
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