House GOP revolts against Boehner plan

[The Straight Story]

House GOP revolts against Boehner plan

House Republicans do not have enough support to pass their debt-ceiling increase plan on their own, a top conservative said Tuesday as his party’s leaders tried to cobble together a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to put the bill over the top.

“There are not 218 Republicans in support of this plan,” Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who heads the powerful conservative caucus in the House, told reporters Tuesday morning.

That means Speaker John A. Boehner will have to rely on Democrats to pass the $1.2 trillion spending cuts plan — support Democrats’ top vote-counter said he’ll be hard-pressed to gain. Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer said “very few” Democrats will vote for the Boehner plan, though he acknowledged there could be some.

A vote in the House is expected Wednesday, and Republican leaders are trying to round up enough support to pass their version. They hope that if it can pass the House, that will pressure Senate Democrats to drop their alternative and accept the GOP’s plan.



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/26/house-gop-revolts-against-boehner-debt-plan/

[Atman]

1. Any Democrat who votes for Boehner's plan should be kicked out of the party.

Go join the Teabaggers.

.

[kirby]

3. They are called Blue Dogs...

The same asses who vote with the Republicans on other party line crap. The same asses who Boehner used to mis-characterized the previous cut, cap, balance, bill as bipartisan.

[EC]

5. Even the Blue Dogs shouldn't want this fight again just

before the elections...it does no good to keep kicking it down the road...and boner's plan is just a temp fix.

[bluestateguy]

2. Congress passing no bill gives Obama more leveridge to use the 14th

nt

[gratuitous]

4. The GOP is revolting!

Hee, hee, hee.

Now, you would think that because anything Boehner wants to get out of the House is going to require at least some votes from the Democratic side of the aisle that that would give the House Democrats a place at the table, and everyone would want to know just what their requirements are for a bill to be passed. You would be completely wrong, of course. House Democrats are the invisible faction in this whole tussle, ignored until their votes are needed to avoid an economic meltdown, but shut out of the process.