"Senate conservatives stick the knife in House GOP leaders"

[applegrove]

Senate conservatives stick the knife in House GOP leaders

by Greg Sargent, the Morning Plumb at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/09/12/the-morning-plum-senate-conservatives-stick-the-knife-in-house-gop-leaders/

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When we last checked in on House GOP leaders, they were struggling to round up support among rank and file GOP lawmakers for their latest scheme to find a way through this fall’s fiscal minefields. They want to pass a measure funding the government temporarily at current levels while also forcing a Senate vote on a measure to defund Obamacare. The latter would go down to defeat; conservatives would get to vote on their defund fantasy; the government would remain open.

Today Politico reports that Senate conservatives Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are now openly deriding the scheme as a sell-out. Crucially, this is why support is building among House conservatives against the GOP leadership scheme:


Cruz and Lee have resisted the House approach because the Democratic-controlled Senate would surely vote to keep the government funded and easily defeat the Obamacare defunding component. Cruz called the approach “procedural chicanery” and asserted that the House GOP would be “complicit in the disaster that is Obamacare” if it supported the maneuver.

“Not a fan,” Lee told POLITICO. “We need the House to pass a [bill] that funds everything else at current levels and contains a defunding provision.”

That sentiment helped ramp up opposition among the two dozen or so House Republicans that take cues from the two senators, the House GOP aide said.


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[gopiscrap]

1. Hope they draw metaphorical blood

[TreasonousBastard]

2. So, I'm listening to this discussion this morning with...

a bunch of old Washington hands and one of the women makes the observation that most of the wildeyed teabagger contingent is in their first term and most have never held any public office before, or any real job, for that matter, and they have no idea what the consequences of their assholery could be.

I keep hearing comments from leading Democrats along the line of "I kinda feel sorry for Boner."

I suspect they feel sorrier for the future of the country if we don't get rid of these teabagging assholes.

I do.