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Posted on 12/11/2014 1:08:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I could have sworn the parties had a deal two days ago. But that was before lefty heroes like Elizabeth Warren and Barney Frank weighed in against the bill because of how it would roll back parts of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
Two days later, Pelosi’s walking away.
Dear Democratic Colleague,
It is clear from this recess on the floor that the Republicans don’t have enough votes to pass the CRomnibus. This increases our leverage to get two offensive provisions of the bill removed: the bank bailout and big money for campaigns provision.
However you decide to vote in the end, I thank those who continue to give us leverage to improve the bill.
Stay tuned.
NANCY
Boehner got no Democratic yays for the test vote earlier today, but that was before the White House formally endorsed the deal. Maybe Pelosi feared that Obama’s support would free a few centrist Dems to lend Boehner a hand in getting to 218 and she felt she had to warn them they’d be deemed traitors to the cause for doing so. (Watch her floor speech below.) Can’t blame her for calculating that way. If you were looking to stay on the left’s good side, whom would you side with? Progressive heartthrob Elizabeth Warren or the lame duck who just got obliterated for the second midterm election in a row?
Is what she says correct, though? Does Boehner really lack the votes? Apparently, yeah:
Unsure whether they have the votes to pass a trillion-dollar federal spending package, House GOP leaders on Thursday afternoon delayed a final vote on the “cromnibus.”…
GOP leaders called a recess to floor proceedings, with a GOP leadership aide confirming “no conference meeting [is] planned at this time.” The aide said “leadership teams are still talking to their respective members,” and noted, “We still plan to vote this afternoon.”
It’s not clear, however, what they will be voting on.
If Republicans can’t surmount the impasse, they could decide to proceed with swiftly moving a short-term continuing resolution through the chamber, which the Senate could also pass before 11:59 p.m., when current funding expires.
Two sources told NRO’s Joel Gehrke that Boehner actually promised wavering Republicans during the test vote earlier today that he’d pull the cromnibus and replace it with a clean, short-term spending bill if they spared him the humiliation of losing the test vote. Supposedly that’s why conservative Marlin Stutzman agreed to vote yes; without Stutzman (or anyone else), the vote would have ended in a 213-213 tie.
Two questions now. One: Why is Pelosi opposing a bill that would give her side half a loaf when the GOP will control both houses next month and can write a bill that gives them none (or rather, only as much as the lame duck Obama insists on)? I think Leon Wolf has the answer to that. The politics of opposing a new giveaway to Wall Street might be worth more to Democrats than the concessions made by the GOP in the bill itself are. (It’s revealing that the GOP isn’t eagerly blaming Elizabeth Warren for risking a shutdown by trying to block a pro-Wall Street provision, notes Benjy Sarlin.) If you think lefty Warren-style economic populism is the way to go, especially in 2016, why not take your fingerprints off the bill and let Obama decide whether to sign a new pro-Wall Street GOP offering next month? If he does, House Dems can say they’re blameless. And if they raise enough of a stink now, left-wing pressure on Obama might convince him to veto it.
Two: With eight hours to go before the government runs out of money and shuts down, will Reid agree to a short-term CR? If so, how short-term? More funding for one week is probably okay by him, as he’ll still be majority leader next Thursday. A clean 10-month funding bill is probably okay with him too, as it’ll lock the new Senate Republican majority into a compromise spending bill for a good long while. But as Gabe Malor argued on Twitter, a one-month CR is no good: All it means is that he’ll be handing the baton to Mitch McConnell, destroying his own leverage over negotiations. Problem is, if Reid blocks a one-month CR, the government will shut down. And quite possibly, instead of the usual narrative blaming the GOP for the shutdown, the media will have no choice but to blame Reid, Warren, and Pelosi. Frankly, I hope it happens. I’m curious to see our friends in the press, longtime believers in the idea that few things in life are worse than a shutdown, suddenly discover that shutdowns caused by a stand on principle are pretty sweet after all. A week characterized by stark media embarrassments could use another. Stay tuned.
Update: Let the shutdown preparations begin!
Let’s have a pity party.
One...two...three....
Boo hoo.
KILL dah BILL
You were used as a chump, Boehner. If you ask nicely maybe the Democrats will give you your pants back when they're done with you.
Do your job and send up Budget Bills for each of the departments, like you’re supposed to.
Are you kidding? Boehner will happily use the specter of a government shutdown as an excuse to give the democrats more of what they're demanding - and he secretly wants as well.
Then he'll whine to the press that he had no choice.
Nancy knows its all political kabuki.
Blah, blah and blah. As long as Americans are working and having money withheld from their paychecks the government will not "run out of money". If there is a shortage the US Government will just borrow or print more money. The money is still rolling in to the Treasury at $200 billion/month! There will only be a delay in having it allocated while the Uni-Party of Dem & Rep wanna be Overlords sorts out their differences over who gets what.
I must admit I was completely against a shut down if the GOP forced it but if the Dems do it, well, let’m have it as I think it would strengthen the GOP position. I can’t believe the Rats are doing this in the House. I think “the one” even knows this.
And the greedy media will give it to her!!!!!!!!!
Why? To keep conservatives from getting the credit they deserve. "The Tea Party Is Dead!" TM usmedia
Personally, I don’t care who takes credit as long as this bill is DOA, MUERTE, KAPUT.
An aroused electorate can accomplish miracles.
—James Buckley, 1970
By Krom!!
That Pelosi is a witch!
No such thing as a shutdown of government. That’s a lefty falsehood perpetuated by them and RINO’s.
“Closing”: the government is unadulterated BS. It mainly is about 30% of the government “workers” getting a fully paid vacay at taxpayers’ expense. The only things they “close” is what they can inconvenience and offend the taxpayer by closing. What a joke. These politicians are malignant criminals and thugs for the most part. What a pathetic joke.
Yes I know. I should have said “partial shut down”
Whatever happens, it’s nice to know that there is at least one person in Congress, even though she’s a Democrat, who cares enough about the American people to make a commotion, even risk shutting down the government, in order to try to prevent a budget being passed that would force American taxpayers to spend billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street again.
Last year, there was also such a person, a Republican — Ted Cruz — who was willing to shut down the government in order to try to save the American people from the sufferings of ObamaCare. But where is Ted today? Rejecting the budget would also save Americans from ObamaCare by refusing to fund it.
Unlike Elizabeth Warren, who could not be silenced by Harry and Nancy, Ted Cruz seems to have been lobotomized by John Boehner and Mitch McConnell over the past year into becoming a good soldier of their RINO realm. Very sad.
Let’s see who Impotent Boener screws this time. The members that changed their vote to allow The Weeper to save face or the American People.
My bet is both.
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