Boehner pulls Plan B - lack of support Oops

[malaise]

The House is in recess as they scramble for votes. Remember this is going nowhere in the Senate and won't even make it to the President's desk



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[elleng]

1. Right. Repugs against:

Thirteen Republicans voted against the rule that brought the Plan B measure to the floor, which is a high number of defections for a procedural vote.

Among the defections on the procedural motion were Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Paul Broun (Ga.), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Tim Huelskamp (Kan.), Walter Jones (N.C.), Ron Paul (Texas), Jean Schmidt (Ohio) and Joe Walsh (Ill.).

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/274125-gop-defections-piling-up-on-boehners-plan-b-bill

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2. these people are insane. they hate Obama so much they are willing to tank the world economy.

[malaise]

6. Pulls the bill

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16. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

when you're trying to trump your opponent, you don't bring a bill to the floor without having the votes....CIVICS 101

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[malaise]

24. Bwaaaaaaaaaah hahahahha - this is hilarious

It's been a year of shellacking for ReTHUGs.

I'm lovin' it!! All gavel and no power!!

[brooklynite]

3. Mark Levin show reporting Boehner is threatening to take away Committee Seats....

...from members who won't vote "yes".

[tridim]

12. The GOP cold war just went hot.

This is going to be good!

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

13. Heh heh. That will teach em.

Yeah, that will teach em to vote for a different Speaker of the House.

Boner isn't very smart. You usually threaten in private and in couched language. Perhaps he has taken to the bottle too early after breakfast.

[Recursion]

4. I honestly don't think there's been a Speaker this weak in the modern US

This is the third time this has happened to him.

[malaise]

7. He pulled his own bill - Cantor coming up

[Recursion]

15. Bwah!

I thought you were kidding, until I switched to CSPAN

[malaise]

26. Ha - they jumped off the cliff

[MineralMan]

5. And his tears fall like rain, washing the orange

from his face. Poor, poor Boner...

Resign now, and save yourself all the tsuris.

[W_HAMILTON]

8. I never understood this stunt anyway.

Are the Republicans really going to put up for a vote increasing taxes, even if just on millionaires, and expect it to pass with just Republican support?

That never made any sense to me. Why would the party of "no tax increases!" vote to increase taxes at all, especially just for show?

[malaise]

10. It's about his election in the House

It's always about ReTHUGs

Cantor smells blood

[malaise]

27. ReTHUGs are self destructing

It's fun to watch

[RogerM]

9. House Republicans cancel Plan B vote

House Republican leaders canceled a vote on a tax-cut plan linked to fiscal-cliff talks on Thursday night, saying it didn't have the votes to pass. The Republicans' "Plan B" would have extended tax cuts on incomes below $1 million. President Obama had said he would veto the bill, and House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement that it's up to Obama and Senate Democrats to avert the fiscal cliff. U.S. stock index futures moved lower after the news, with Dow Jones Industrial Average futures down 0.2%, while Japanese stocks, which were trading at the time, came off their early highs


http://www.marketwatch.com/story/house-republicans-cancel-plan-b-vote-2012-12-20?link=MW_home_latest_news

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11. Boehner & Cantor....MAJOR POLITICAL FAIL

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. What an embarrassment

How are they going to spin the impossible spin?

[KharmaTrain]

17. Off The "Cliff" We Go........

Boner's dilemma...he either sucks up to the teabaggers who comprise a majority of his party's inept caucus or he tries to pry away 25 to join with Democrats to get a deal passed (mostly on Democratic terms). He's screwn.

[malaise]

25. Yep he's a disaster - will probably lose the position as well

Think about it McConnell and now Boehner -the ReTHUG party has pushed itself off the cliff.

[donco]

18. Whats the perfect storm

of incompetence?Boehner & Cantor, of course.

[madokie]

23. Hell I forgot all about pretty boy cantor

Is he almost gone or are we going to have to stomach him a couple more years? I plum forgot about him

[Shilo]

19. I truly didn't think tan man could look like more of a weakling and a fool

but I am happy for the continued fodder.

[madokie]

20. OOPS is right

what a dumb ass boehner is
I seen a picture of he and O earlier and blowtoad was all huffed up looking at the President like a Cheshire cat that just ate the mouse. It was fall down funny

[malaise]

29. He may soon be the ex-speaker

Cantor will stab him in the back for that post. Come on ReTHUGs eat one another on TV

[UTUSN]

21. R#4 & K for, bwah-ha-HAH!1 Is there no LIMIT to this drunk's self-humiliation?!1 n/t

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22. cantor said 'no' when asked if there would be a vote tomorrow

as he sped out of the halls of congress....

asked by a reporter.

[RomneyLies]

28. Can you say Speaker Cantor?

Boehner is through as Speaker of the House. No way can he keep that post now.

[malaise]

30. I think you're right n/t