Snubbed: Boehner Can’t Get the Votes
Good for them. Boehner boned us last time and there’s every reason to believe this deal is the same.
(The Washington Times) — 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.
Mr. Boehner’s bill would reduce future discretionary spending by $1.2 trillion, grant an immediate debt increase of $1 trillion, and set up a committee to work on trillions of dollars in future deficit reduction either through more spending cuts or tax increases, which would then earn another future debt increase. It would also require both the House and Senate to hold votes on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
But conservative Republicans in the House, many allied to the tea party movement, said they don’t just want votes on the amendment, they want an assurance it will be sent to the states. Mr. Jordan and other conservatives said they would prefer the Senate vote on the debt increase the House passed last week, that includes deeper spending cuts and requires both chambers approve a balanced budget amendment and submit it to states for ratification before any debt increase happens.
Posted by WM on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at 3:37 pm | 
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The WH and media (and O’Reilly) act like this is all being orchestrated by the small but radical Tea Party movement. The truth is, a lot of America backs the Tea Party fiscal responsibility demands (I call them closet Tea Party) and it is not the little extremist segment they’d like everyone to think. Trying to demonize and blame the TP is not working.
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/173485-boehner-plans-2012-cuts-may-anger-rank-and-file
Now, quit offering bills to compete with CCB, and force a vote in the Senate on that.
This is not all that complicated. American’s have had it. They want the spending to STOP and fiscal order restored. They don’t want to compromise on this.
WTF have I been telling you on your Facebook account – cut the debt, cap the spending and start paying this monstrosity down. I’ve told you countless times, Do Not Negotiate with Chronic Liars! What’s so hard about this, have you got a learning disability or something? They are going to like you whatever you do. The minute you compromise and they’ve got what they want, they will walk all over you. Fucking retard!
Compromise for the sake of compromise is not progress! What part of NO don’t you establishment Republicans understand? No more taxes and no more debt. Stop all the spending now. End of story.
The Republicans need to quite compromising with the fucking Democrats!
They are destroying themselves and us!
Ignore the polls Republican because our country is at stake.
Compromise is for losers. Sad that Obama knows that and “our guys” don’t.
C’mon John B. Get with the program.
I think the only action for the republicans in congress is to revise the cut, cap, and balance plan. Pass it in the house and let tha dem’s vote it down again. Do this over and over until it passes the senate and the let H.O. veto it.
I think he is uneasy in the veto. So what can happen ?