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Reports: House GOP lining up behind Boehner’s plan (the GOP has sold the tea party out)
Hotair ^ | 7/27/11 | Allahpundit

Posted on 07/27/2011 1:50:33 PM PDT by teg_76

[T]he opposition bloc led by [Jim] Jordan appears to be crumbling, as leadership’s message seems to be sinking in. Sources tells NRO that a number of members who were confirmed no votes against the Boehner plan announced during the meeting that they would be voting yes. One of those members, Rep. Blake Farenthold (R., Texas) told reporters that while he would like to “snap my fingers and change the world like ‘I Dream of Genie’ of Samantha on ‘Bewitched,’” Republicans “need to take what we can get.”…

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boehner; donothingsenate; obama; palin; partyofnoplan; reid; teaparty
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Face it, we have no representation in Washington. The cuts we need to save this country will never happen....but hey, the GOP might come out of this looking okay. That's what's important, right?
1 posted on 07/27/2011 1:50:39 PM PDT by teg_76
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To: teg_76

if true,

some pubies will not be returning to congress in 2012.


2 posted on 07/27/2011 1:52:04 PM PDT by ken21 (liberal + rino progressive media hate palin, bachman, cain...)
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To: teg_76

What’s the saying, defeat ripped from the jaws of victory?


3 posted on 07/27/2011 1:52:38 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: teg_76

Once the House dems united to say they would unanimously vote no, they guaranteed passage.


4 posted on 07/27/2011 1:52:42 PM PDT by henkster (Ethanol belongs in a beer can, not a gas tank.)
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To: teg_76

My hope is that this will spur the Tea Party to even greater action against both parties. More primary challenges = fewer RINOs.


5 posted on 07/27/2011 1:53:01 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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What does it matter, Senators arent voting for it and Bam Bam said hed veto??? right?


6 posted on 07/27/2011 1:53:46 PM PDT by GoCards (RUN SARAH RUN)
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To: Dr. Thorne

It better or we are sunk.


7 posted on 07/27/2011 1:54:31 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: ken21

It’s time for the tea party to officially start its own politian party. The GOP is doing nothing to help the country, and I won’t even comment on the Dems....


8 posted on 07/27/2011 1:54:58 PM PDT by Sporke (USS-Iowa BB-61)
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To: teg_76

Brit Hume called it Monday night. “Boehner won’t have the votes tonight, Tuesday, but he will on Wednesday”.


9 posted on 07/27/2011 1:56:17 PM PDT by AU72
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To: teg_76

I take it this board prefers default? Or maybe I just don’t understand what the preferred plan is if Boehner’s is not acceptable.


10 posted on 07/27/2011 1:57:14 PM PDT by don'tbedenied
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To: teg_76

Look on the bright side, when this all shakes out we will have more people to hang for treason.


11 posted on 07/27/2011 1:57:17 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: teg_76

When looking at a count on a vote like this it’s much more accurate to look at liberals vs. conservatives rather than republicans vs. democrats. Liberal republicans (read: RINO’s) vote along with liberal democrats (read: All of them) against conservative republicans (read: the TEA party and some other specific examples)

It’s a disgrace.


12 posted on 07/27/2011 1:57:45 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (if there were a little more of me around we'd all be better off.)
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No, this is ok.

The good: Any blood will be on Reid’s and 0zer0’s hands. And it brings the issue up again next spring. That is no small thing. No tax increases.

The bad: no meaningful cuts whatsoever, brings down morale as we realize we can’t do it all right now, the GOP leadership felt it necessary to blow sunshine up our asses.


13 posted on 07/27/2011 1:58:45 PM PDT by Principled
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To: Sporke

So far I have few problems with the TEA GOP. Waiting to see what the TEA does after this brewing by the establishment GOP. My problem is with the establishment GOP. I want to invite the establishment GOP to TEA.


14 posted on 07/27/2011 1:59:37 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
At this rate we'll have to import rope.
15 posted on 07/27/2011 1:59:37 PM PDT by JPG (Palin '12)
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To: teg_76
At what point will the old guard GOP push the tea party out and create the fertile ground for a real third party? Also, will the GOP even care that they guarantee an Obama second term and their own minority status?
16 posted on 07/27/2011 2:00:00 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: don'tbedenied

There won’t be a default. Our debt service obligations are approximately $20 billion per month. Revenues to the Treasury are between $175 and $225 billion per month.

“Pass the plan or we’ll default” is pure fear-mongering bull$hit.


17 posted on 07/27/2011 2:00:45 PM PDT by kevao
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To: Personal Responsibility

It is all a waste of time.

Rush said that if they just froze the budget ...no base line increases saving over 10 years 980 Billion

We need the senate and white house and not Mitt


18 posted on 07/27/2011 2:01:20 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Personal Responsibility

I sure hope those GOP pukes don’t call me for a donation again. I’m usually well spoken and calm when I turn them down, listing legitimate reasons.

Next time, they will hear the sailor in me.


19 posted on 07/27/2011 2:01:22 PM PDT by KittenClaws (A closed mouth gathers no foot.)
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To: JPG

I’d chip in some cash.


20 posted on 07/27/2011 2:01:29 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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