BREAKING: Boehner capitulates, will accept Senate Bill

[brooklynite]

Robert Costa
?@robertcostaNRO 10m

Per Sen sources, Boehner has agreed to take up the Senate's plan and allow it to pass with Dem votes.

[DCBob]

1. that means this crisis is over.

For now.

[Auntie Bush]

9. Yeah, for now! We can look forward to going through this all over again two weeks after Christmas.

A belated Xmas present for the country. Let me thank them ahead of time. GFY !!!!!

[Are_grits_groceries]

16. February 7th is reported to be the next debt ceiling deadline in this Senate deal. nt

[chervilant]

37. Yes, but,

dare we hope that Boehner will be 'put out to pasture' before the next debt ceiling fiasco?

[Auntie Bush]

43. I just heard someone on TV predict

that Boner will retain his job as there is no one to replace him and he'll be forgiven for having such a difficult task trying to control that bunch of hillbillies.

[chervilant]

44. Durn!

Here I was getting all excited about no Boehner!

[libodem]

48. Must be

Some reformulated political Viagra to maintain your ability to fuck 'THE PEOPLE' with an artificially inflated, Blackmail Boner. If I didn't despise, Can'tor so much, Orange Boneman, would be first on my hate list.

[Left Coast2020]

58. But I predict he will be gone after next year.

A Vet will apparently run for his seat as Ohio voters have more brains than some voters in Texas.

Nov. 2014 can't come soon enough.

[efhmc]

70. Nancy says he will stay.

[Divine Discontent]

73. "such a difficult task trying to control that bunch of hillbillies" - lol

someone has to do it, and I really don't think anyone else would want to! they're so utterly incompetent and straight outta hillbillyland that it's no surprise they want their way or they'll cause destruction. it's what they grew up with!


http://www.zazzle.com/shutdown_the_gop_by_voting_in_2014_government-128195183613839642?rf=238107662556833486

[ehrnst]

74. But who would replace him? Cantor? (nt)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

75. Not if we scream at Boner to pass a budget for the whole year....

That's the norm. That would end all of the debt ceilings and continuing resolutions.

[jeff47]

26. Not quite. Teabaggers can still fuck up the process in the Senate

To get through the Senate before we hit the debt limit, everything will have to proceed with unanimous consent. Otherwise, the bill stalls for things like time to debate the bill and add amendments, which themselves need time to debate.

Long story short, Ted Cruz can still fuck this up.

[robinlynne]

33. sort of. Boehner gave Reid yesterday a document allowing him to skip one of the proceudres, so Cruz

can only stall for a certain number of hours, 30. It's here on DU.

[jeff47]

36. And doing that he can still delay it past the debt limit (nt)

[robinlynne]

46. which is not a real limit. There is enouhg moeny to pay all of our bills through beginning of Novemb

er. So the damage from the possibility of default is real. The damage from an actual default is not.

[pnwmom]

57. I haven't seen that date anywhere except as speculation, have you? n/t

[robinlynne]

69. an ex sec of the treasury on the news hour last night or the night before said it doesn't really hap

happen till November. The "scary date" is just a "scary date".

[pnwmom]

55. But 30 hours is too many. We have till midnight tonight. n/t

[pnwmom]

54. Not until Sen. Cruz stands down. He could still muck things up. n/t

[munster69]

59. No, they got a piece of Obamacare so they will be back for more

the dems caved on Obamacare

They are making changes to Obamacare, now boner will say he got 98% of what he wanted.
Dems 0
Repugs 1

They will be back for more extortion.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/politics/shutdown-showdown/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

According to sources, the Senate deal under discussion would reopen the government, funding it until January 15. It would also raise the debt limit until February 7 to avert a possible default on U.S. debt obligations for the first time.

it also would set up budget negotiations between the House and Senate for a long-term spending plan,
and would include a provision to strengthen verification measures for people seeking government subsidies under Obama's signature health care reforms.

[demwing]

68. Your facts are correct, your opinion is bullshit

no way in hell this is a Dem loss, for fucks sake get real.

[llmart]

79. Um...I haven't heard one person on the news say this.

The News Hour had two analysts who both said a version of the same thing. "The Republicans got their clocks cleaned" from a reporter with USA Today and the other guy said virtually the same thing only in different terminology. Reporters on NPR said the same thing.

So, I supposed we should listen to you instead?

[munster69]

61. Looks like the dems capitulated on Obamacare

No, they got a piece of Obamacare so they will be back for more

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/politics/shutdown-showdown/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

According to sources, the Senate deal under discussion would reopen the government, funding it until January 15. It would also raise the debt limit until February 7 to avert a possible default on U.S. debt obligations for the first time.

it also would set up budget negotiations between the House and Senate for a long-term spending plan,
and would include a provision to strengthen verification measures for people seeking government subsidies under Obama's signature health care reforms.

[creeksneakers2]

71. The GOP might not want to try again

after seeing how badly it turned out for them this time. Listen to talk radio. The right views the settlement as a disastrous defeat.

[ruffburr]

2. Bout frigging Time!!!

[vi5]

3. Great news

Did we give up much if anything in the senate bill? Or is it just a clean bill kicking the can down the road?

[ChangeUp106]

4. 99% clean last I saw

But it does kick the can down the road

[a kennedy]

7. I hate that stupid can.....

D*mn.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. ***

[tofuandbeer]

49. +1

[Roland99]

51. LOL!

[awoke_in_2003]

53. Things are going to start happening to me now

http://m.

[leftyohiolib]

5. did they keep the medical device tax - i heard that might get delayed

[Kber]

19. No change to the medical device tax

[jeff47]

28. So far, the only reported concessions are

1) Not raising the debt limit long enough to last until after the next election
2) "Income verification" for ACA subsidies.

[daybranch]

40. actua;;y these should be considered gifts to the democrats.

Income verification does nothing but repell future republican lies about how democrats are giving the ACA to liars and crooks. So no giving away there!
Second, the debt limit as an organizing vehicle for democrats and a very very hot potato for republicans for many years to come has been established. Replays of the currewnt events will not be kind to republicans who would probably lose the Representatives helped by Gerrymandering in the states , thereby losing the House for many years and further increase the Democratic majority in the House.
We need to brand them now as the traitors and liars they wanted to be to serve their rich bosses.

[creeksneakers2]

72. It might be throwing a monkey wrench

into the gears. Right now the Obama care computer system isn't working well. Changing how applicants are qualified will mean going back into the system and making what is probably a major change. I don't know how far this will set the program back but I suspect it will be significant.

[CarrieLynne]

63. a back handed way of defunding it...

make it harder to qualify - less money flowing into the program....

[doc03]

6. I hope it is true but what about the nut jobs in the peanut

gallery? People have been saying he is going to cave for days but the teabaggers somehow
scare him back in line every time. I wonder what will happen with that nut job Cruz? Will he be the teabagger hero or will he just fade away?

[warrior1]

8. could have done this 2 weeks ago

[Kber]

20. Could have done this 2 months ago.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

42. Didn't have to go through this at all.

[LuvNewcastle]

10. I sure hope so. I can't take anymore of this.

I depend on my disability check and I've been worried as hell, just like millions of other Americans. These fights over the debt ceiling need to end. I think it should be illegal to handle the country's finances this way. Bring back the Gephardt Rule!

[Liberalynn]

11. I hope it is over too for everybody's sake but most of all for the people

who have been getting hurt by all of this.

[sufrommich]

12. Anyone know what time the house is expected to vote?nt

[stevenleser]

13. Bring in the Battleship Missouri. This is unconditional surrender. We accept. nt

[Paladin]

14. I'll believe it when it happens, not before. Way too many false hopes. (nt)

[B2G]

15. Excellent news if true,

so they'd better get healthcare.gov working soon because the media focus is going to shift to healthcare once it's not covering this mess 24/7.

[ColesCountyDem]

17. I'll believe it when I see it. n/t

[davidthegnome]

18. This is fantastic news.

Yeah, it's going to kick the can down the road... but it keeps us afloat for a while, enables us to survive without collapsing into complete economic disaster.

[bonniebgood]

21. USA can fight Terroism all around the world but cant fight terroist in your own house. NT

[tavernier]

22. Sure as hell doesn't help our global stability

IMO we must look to the world like the guy digging under his couch cushions for change to try to make the rent.

[magical thyme]

38. that's been exactly my take too....nt

[gtar100]

23. Republicans may now return to burying their heads in the sand and blaming

Obama, liberals, and Democrats for everything that disturbs their simple minds.

I hope I'm wrong but I have serious doubts that any republicans learned anything about the absurdity of their own party through this crisis. I've seen too much of their stupidity to believe that anything would knock some sense into them. In other words, I'll believe it when I see it. They will be right back to their same old bullshit in no time at all, hating on the government and supporting hypocrites for public office.

[librechik]

24. sorry, at this time can't confirm this story. ALSO cnn not reporting it. n/t

[TBF]

27. I think this may be confirmation from "the Hill" -

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/328803-boehner-to-allow-vote-on-senate-deal

[librechik]

31. yes,but it's not the same bill--changes are reportedly being made

I fear to satisfy the Teeps. I am not encouraged. thanks for the url!

[TBF]

32. I wasn't sure -

that seemed like the best place to look.

They will iron this out and pass it - Wall Street is not amused at this point. Too much $$$ at stake.

On edit - but I get what you're saying - hopefully someone is going over that bill with a fine-tooth comb.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

45. CNN reports that "It's Too Close to Call."

[randome]

52. That's going to be a meme for a looooong time.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Fantastic Anarchist]

56. They deserve it.

[Snake Plissken]

25. So this 16 day long Tea Bagging Opera was basically to ensure those who still had doubts

about the teabagger's sanity. Yes folks they really are that insane.

[TrogL]

29. From ThinkProgress

REMINDER: Ted Cruz or Mike Lee could still filibuster a deal in the Senate http://thkpr.gs/1gHhgCn

[TrogL]

30. From Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/boehner-will-bring-senate-bill-to-vote-rep-brady-uHGhiM8kSzS7OGheqeSnAw.html

[Fantastic Anarchist]

47. Yep, but he doesn't say if it will pass the Senate first.

That's the crucial test.

[Botany]

34. Thanx for the $31 billion out of the US economy tea baggers

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023860439

[barbaraj]

39. can we apply this

to the teabaggers...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seditious_conspiracy

[HappyMe]

41. No.

[libodem]

50. Only cost

A 160 million dollars per day times 14 days. Are these Piles, not the ones who scream about taxpayer dollars being wasted on affordable health care? Better to flush money down the hopper? I don't get it?


Piles autocorrected Pukes, so I kept it.

[FailureToCommunicate]

62. We should send them the bill for those costs!

The loss to (whatever was left of) our esteem in the financial markets of world? Gone for good

[libodem]

65. Should be at the top

Of each and every campaign ad. That's for sure. What a stupid shananagan. They are clueless hypocrites.

[BainsBane]

60. Opening the House up to a vote was the only was this was ever going to happen

He should know those teabaggers well enough to know that no compromise would satisfy them. They seek nothing less than the destruction of the federal government.

[Javaman]

64. so the 16 day long poutrage by the repukes is finally over. nt

[Auntie Bush]

78. "poutrage" such a perfect word to discribe the pukes.

[Turbineguy]

66. We, at least they are giving us another chance

to find out if the idiots are right in a few months.

[lpbk2713]

67. The GOP Hostage Crisis is almost over.

They have laid down their AK-47's and there's
a light at the end of the tunnel. Americans are
no longer prisoners in their own country.

[srican69]

76. You mean Bandicoot? ( literally PIG-RAT )

Source: Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandicoot

The word itself is often used as a common name for any of them, and is an anglicised form of the Telugu word పందికొక్కు (pandi-kokku), loosely, pig-rat.[1] which originally referred to the unrelated Indian Bandicoot Rat. The other two species of peramelemorphs are the bilbies.

[woo me with science]

77. Scammed by both parties. Again.

It never should have gone this far. The faux fiscal "crisis" should have been utterly rejected by a Democratic President TWO YEARS ago. Let's remember how we got started down this road of sequestrations and shutdowns in the first place. Republicans should have been slapped down hard then. Instead, the axe of sequestration was embraced by Democrats, and we got soaring speeches about eating our peas. None of this should have happened at all. It was orchestrated by corporatists in both parties, and now we have perpetual rule by shock doctrine. This is not a win, except for thieves in both parties. We have been scammed again.

Let's remember this critical point made by DUer, cui bono:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023864395

But what is in the bill being passed is a budget with sequestration. A bill with less spending than Ryan's budget.

And let's repeat a post by leveymg that also explains what is really going on here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3839411

67. It's because this lunacy is all a quite rational way to propel the Center-Right Austerity agenda.

That's precisely why I don't believe this BS about 40 Teahadis being responsible for the "crisis."

A partial shutdown suits the deficit hawks in both parties just fine, since it's been adjusted so it doesn't actually impact payrolls in the military and Intelligence agencies. This is simply austerity and cuts to social programs without anyone having to actually vote for it, and that's making the Center-Right smile.

Of course, they won't allow actual default of the debt - the "threat" of that just another psychological device to make this seem like a real crisis. It's not - it's simply austerity by default.

Every single deal, every single orchestrated crisis, every single shock doctrine scam moves us further into corporate slavery. We are being played by both corporate parties, over and over again.

[idwiyo]

81. Your post deserves a K&R

[SDjack]

80. Speaker Boehner: Be a man and strip the pork out of the

Senate bill. Make the Senate sign on to a Clean bill.