GOP cancels Boehner bill vote, replaces w/ library naming bills

[BostonPirate]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...dership-postpones-vote-on-debt-limit-bill.php

Despite a days-long push to force their conservative members into line, and sneak Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) debt limit bill through the House of Representatives, GOP leadership has postponed a scheduled vote on the legislation -- a sign that their efforts have thus far failed.

It just makes me need to ask the question.

when are they going to realise that they need the dems to pass legislation, and that means that they need to COMPROMISE, to LEGISLATE.

Now Boehner's fate as speaker hangs in the ballance. Reid and McCain are positioning themselves to work out a deal.

When he took the tea party out of his equation, McCain became the go to man for McConnel, the president and the Dem leadership. Not good for the Tea party. The GOP is not known for its tollerance.

there is one light at the end of the tunnel.

Now it is in the hands of the moderates in the senate. The house of reps has failed in its duty to the nation.

 

[BostonPirate]

here is a second source on the delay and its details

After the announcement of the delay, conservative congressmen were seen entering and leaving Boehner's office as the speaker tried to generate the necessary support. A floor debate on the plan was cut short, and the House moved on to discuss the naming of a post office in Illinois.
Staff members were later seen carrying pizzas from a local restaurant into Boehner's office.
Defeat would be a major setback for Boehner, who assumed his post in January, and further muddy the already tense negotiations over a deficit reduction deal that would also increase the federal borrowing limit. In particular, it would show Boehner was unable to control the tea party conservatives elected last year in a Republican wave that delivered a GOP majority in the House and his ascension to speaker.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/07/28/debt.talks/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Here is where the hand off is occurring right now....

Beneath the harsh partisan rhetoric, there have been signs of a growing recognition of a need for further compromise. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, called Tuesday for renewed negotiations with Obama, and indicated that his party must be willing to move away from some of its demands.
Sources close to the negotiations have told CNN that Vice President Joe Biden is very much in the mix of the back-channel conversations that are occurring on a possible fallback position.

If McCain and his moderate group hang onto getting a long term deal, the house may have to accept this agreement or risk being the last guy without a seat when the music ends.

This has turned into a hot potato tossing contest between the house GOP and the senate GOP.

And what is this about the vice president now? I thought he was the guy insisting that the loopholes be removed to have his blessing?

 

[White Eagle]

I sent an email to my rep and got this answer:

Thank you for writing me on the debt ceiling. Today, I'm planning to vote to raise the debt ceiling under a plan House Speaker John Boehner negotiated with Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The plan holds firm to my principles of keeping taxes low and cutting spending in Washington, DC. Though Senator Reid is backing away from the deal now, both of our Texas Senators think the plan will pass the Senate and avert a default on our debt.

I don't know who his contacts are, but if Cornyn and Hutchinson have told him the plan will pass the Senate he must be trying to blow smoke somewhere. My 2 Senators have no desire to do anything President Obama has asked of them. This is what I have to go through.
Incidentally, having having no representation in DC, I emailed Tarryl Clark a Congrescritter in the northeast and asked her to stand tall. It is the only email I have received from anyone that is a personally written email and she isn't even my congresscritter.

 

[BostonPirate]

I sent an email to my rep and got this answer:


I don't know who his contacts are, but if Cornyn and Hutchinson have told him the plan will pass the Senate he must be trying to blow smoke somewhere. My 2 Senators have no desire to do anything President Obama has asked of them. This is what I have to go through.
Incidentally, having having no representation in DC, I emailed Tarryl Clark a Congrescritter in the northeast and asked her to stand tall. It is the only email I have received from anyone that is a personally written email and she isn't even my congresscritter.

thats an insane really insane message. It pretends things that aren't true.

The deal Boehner tried to call a vote on was all of his making, no one else. There are also no real believers that boehners plan will ever pass the senate. Its a given that it will NOT.

You need to pass that response to someone in the press.

 

[Spiff]

Republicans, the anti-big government party, seem all to happy to spend millions of taxpayer money discussing and voting on a library name. Is this the kind of stuff that Americans really need to have their federal government do for them, at their expense? Party affiliation aside, this just seems so wrong. With all the different departments in the government, this type thing really needs done by congressional legislators (and very expensive ones at that)? And in the meantime, everyone is scrambling to figure out what needs cut? I need a drink before I can even begin to comprehend the rationalization for this.

 

[CowboyBob]

Why are the Republicans wasting time on silliness like this when there is the debt ceiling to vote on? They're wasting taxpayer money like no one ever has and they whine about the President doing it.

 

[hotatlboi]

Boehner cancelled the vote for tonight.

The Speaker has become irrelevant.

GOP in a total cluserfuck.

 

[Kulindahr]

If someone wrote this in a novel, it would not be believed.

 

[MoltenRock III]

If someone wrote this in a novel, it would not be believed.

Ain't that the truth!