Reuters: GOP Debt Bill Passes the House, 20 No Votes by GOP, Not a Single Yes Vote from House Dems

Source: Reuters



Republican bill passes, opening path to debt deal
By Andy Sullivan and Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON | Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:36pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives approved a Republican plan to cut the budget deficit on Friday that is doomed to defeat in the Senate but which could pave the way for a bipartisan compromise to avert a U.S. debt default.

With time running short ahead of a Tuesday deadline, Republicans pushed their deficit-cutting plan through by a vote of 218-to-210 after the leadership reworked the bill to win over anti-tax conservatives in their ranks.

The Republican legislation, sharply criticized by President Barack Obama, faces certain death in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where all Democrats have vowed to vote against it later on Friday.

But the passage of the bill breaks weeks of political inertia and opens the door to talks on a compromise that could pass Congress before Tuesday, after which the government says it will be unable to pay all of its bills without a deal.

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...and not get called on it by whatever idiotic "news" person is interviewing him.

But it appears he has saved his job this week by passing a futile and meaningless bill. Raises for everyone!

...and along those lines, Andrea Mitchell today said something about, usually they can pin point
names of those that are causing the real problems BUT it seems that BOTH sides will be held responsible for this entire mess.

What a load of crap!

Even before the vote, the "lame" media was already trying to cover for the PeeParty Members and spread
the damage to the Dems.

...makes me so MAD!

...and it would not surprise me in the least were he to make that claim.

Of course it's dead now anyway, RIP, LOL!

The Democrats learned from the masters during the health care bill debate. When you can't justify any other reason why a bill should never become law, you can always get every single one of your minority guys to vote against it and then claim you shouldn't pass it because it doesn't have "bipartisan support."

The GOP should be proud of teaching the Dems that nasty little trick.

Next the Dems will be claiming Boehner's bill is "too long," and that it didn't include the dumbass little quote from the constitution in the preamble, proving it's what the Founding Fathers would have wanted to do. And what happened to Boehner's pledge to let all legislation be available to read for three days before voting on it?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/john-boehner-debt-ceiling-bill-vote_n_913723.html
Boehner Debt Bill Passes House, Heads To Likely Defeat In Senate

This is one of my favorite legislative tricks. You let them pass their shit bill in the House, take it into the appropriate Senate committee, add an amendment that says, "strike all after 'Section 1' and replace with...," put your own bill in its place, and pass that as the "amended House bill."

Then, you drag those bastards into the conference committee and force 'em to either vote against their "own bill," or work out something more reasonable. The original version goes straight to the grave and is almost impossible to resurrect. The public and the press isn't real good at explaining the ruse, or even spotting it, so the other guys get screwed whichever way they turn.

(This is a necessarily condensed version which is automatically incorrect in many details and totally lacking in the subtlety which marks a truly successful bait-and-switch, but I swear it works. I saw some variant of it every week for years.)


Edit: Well, looks like that ain't gonna happen. The Senate just killed it dead, as you guessed. So much for my ace legislative analyst skills.

were from. My bet is that they weren't newly elected Teabag Repubs and probably from long time districts in the NE.

Teabagging freshmen without the advantages of incumbency would be less able to stare their constituents down come next year. They would need the cover, and the 'true believer' cred.

On a whipped party-line vote the long-service, non-insane non-Confederate representatives are where you start, not where you finish. The Party means something to them.

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He's been around for a long time. Maybe all the SENIORS here in retirement paradise blasted his phone lines.

johnson is one of the saner and older republicans in illinois.

and the potential 45th president Michele Bachmann

and yeah i see a bunch of Tea Party first-termers

Seemed like they were ready and waiting last night, before Boehner delayed.

I hope there's no cave for this nightmare of a bill. Amazes me that it left the house, but at least some Republicans voted against (granted, many because they're nuts or seek political self-preservation).

now that's bipartisanship. Thanks Hissy. Did you see Boehner talking earlier about putting his neck out..lol It's about to get chopped off by the Senate

"I stuck my neck out a mile to try to get an agreement with the President of the United States..."

We have a Democratic majority Senate and President, and his bill gets ZERO Democratic votes in the House, and he calls it "sticking his neck out".

What a load. His bill that would never pass the Senate couldn't get enough teabagger votes, so he turns FARTHER RIGHT,
to get more teabagger votes. Pure CYA.

:wtf:

That must be record speed for them!

Glad to see it happen, though.

the end of this.

What kind of low bar is that? Even I didn't expect the Dems to vote for Boehner's plan in the first place. And the 20 Repubs who voted nay are even worse than Boehner making him look like the reasonable middle. I personally didn't expect it to pass at all and I find it unsettling.

This was and is more of the same game. Terrorize because you can. Republicans and Teabaggers are terrorists and you don't negotiate with terrorists. Yes, this is a win, because the Democrats in the House understand and stood firm against the terrorists.

Good on ya Dems. May your esteemed leader in the White House follow your lead.

So they couldn't say it was bipartisan...

Of course, the crazy continues with Mitch McConnell and company.

pass the reconciled bill from the Senate, even with all the Dems. We need 28 I think it was. And this article can't make up it's mind rather it was 17 or 20 no from GOP.