NOPE! Top House Conservatives Says Boehner Lacks Sufficient GOP Support To Raise Debt Limit

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NOPE! Top House Conservatives Says Boehner Lacks Sufficient GOP Support To Raise Debt Limit
Brian Beutler | July 26, 2011, 12:25PM

One of the most influential conservatives in Congress says he's confident his own Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will lack the votes to pass his plan to raise the debt limit in the House of Representatives.

Complicating matters further for Boehner -- the Dems' top vote counter wryly suggested at a simultaneous press briefing that few, if any, Democrats will vote for the GOP's bill, since there is a preferable Democratic plan waiting in the wings. That suggests House conservatives are holding the line against any debt limit increase that can plausibly pass the Senate -- and that Democrats will have added leverage to muscle their own plan through both chambers.

"I am confident as of this morning that there are not 218 Republicans in support of the plan," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told reporters at a Tuesday morning press briefing.

Two-hundred eighteen votes is the usual number required to pass legislation in the House. Because of vacancies, that number is currently 217. That means Boehner can lose no more than 23 Republicans and still pass his plan that would raise the debt limit and set the country up for another default crisis early in 2012.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said "very few" if any Democrats will join Boehner. "I don't want to give a number, but very few."

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[elleng]

1. No sh**, Sherlock!

[Phx_Dem]

2. Good. But I wish Dems wouldn't always give their strategy away.

[MadMaddie]

5. But

But..But we have to know everything they do because if we don't that means they aren't doing anything...:sarcasm:

[LiberalFighter]

3. Those few would be about 5

[AlinPA]

4. Boehner is just playing a game and stalling for a default. He bought into the teabagger stance

from day one.

[MadMaddie]

6. The Thing is Boehner is not that smart

because it's passed 70 times prior nothing has happened... So in his mind that means if it doesn't pass nothing will happen....you see how that logic works...

Boehner is going down in orange flames on this one and he doesn't even see it coming...