Posted on 10/07/2013 1:37:12 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
.............. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has said a clean continuing resolution doesn’t have the votes to pass the House. President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday challenged Boehner to prove it by scheduling a vote.
The Hill on Monday contacted the more than two dozen House Republicans who publicly favor, or who have said they would consider voting for, a clean bill. Not one said they would join forces with the Democrats. The Hill worked off a whip list that The Washington Post has compiled.
Republican Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Lou Barletta (Pa.), Frank LoBiondo (N.J.), Devin Nunes (Calif.), Mike Simpson (Idaho), Rob Wittman (Va.), Charlie Dent (Pa.), Peter King (N.Y.) and Tim Griffin (Ark.) clearly stated they would not sign the petition.
In an email, Griffin said, “Instead of negotiating in good faith, House Democrats are playing political games with a discharge petition. They are following the playbook of President Obama and Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid, who wanted a government shutdown for political purposes.”
Simpson spokeswoman Nikki Watts said, “The answer is 'absolutely not.' ”
Barletta spokesman Tim Murtaugh said, “The congressman would not support a discharge petition. It’s parliamentary gamesmanship which stands no chance of succeeding.”...........
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Doubtful. They have known full well how we feel in the past and could not possibly have cared less.
The GOP-e look on us with more disdain than they look on the Dem representatives and senators.
Having to get elected every two years has its advantages
They’ve had to get elected every two years in the past and have not shown this level of spine. I don’t buy that as the explanation.
-——I do not understand this sudden show of steely Republican spines?-——
It seems pretty clear the spines were always there. The recent reports to the contrary were lies.
But the 14th Amendment has been in play for a long time. Obama’s threatened its use before. They didn’t show this level of spine back then.
Something is up.
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