The Tea Party endorsed the deal by a wider margin than the Democrats.

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http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/112/house/1/votes/690/

76Teabaggers voted yes

34 Teabaggers voted no.

174 Repubs voted yes

66 Repubs voted no (including the Teabaggers

95 Dems voted yes.
95 Dems voted no.


So come again on how the Teabaggers and Republicans hated this deal?

[pnwmom]

1. Boehner worked very hard to get as many Rethugs on board as possible

because that was his job as Speaker of the House.

Nancy didn't have to, because she's not Speaker. It didn't reflect badly on her how many Dems voted no.

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2. So what you're saying is that these horrible scary Teabaggers are also weak and wimpy.

The feared enemy Tea Party that pushes the Republicans is also wimpy and manipulatable. The logic doesn't hold. The people who were happiest to vote for this legislation are clearly the Republicans.

[pnwmom]

4. No, that's what YOU'RE saying.

As a practical matter -- not a wimpy matter -- people in the same party tend to follow their party leader. Nancy wasn't pushing her people as hard as Boehner was -- she made it very clear that it was HIS job to get the vote approved, not hers.

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6. No. I'm saying they supported this bill because they are not opposed to it.

That's not what I hear on DU. I hear the progressives and the Tea Party reactionaries both rejected it but that the wise centrists of both parties created an acceptable bipartisan deal. The numbers suggest otherwise.

[Leopolds Ghost]

7. She wasn't pushing them because she knew their votes weren't needed. She freed her people to

"vote their district." You know that's how Congress works right?

[Tx4obama]

3. There are only 60 members in the House TeaParty Caucus

so it seems strange that the total in the OP adds up to 110.

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5. Take it up with the Washington Post. Just reporting their breakdown.