Shutdown Setback: Republicans Are Bailing on ‘Clean’ CR

[cali]

In a fast-moving series of events in Washington that saw, albeit briefly, the floating of an idea to revive “a super-committee” to deal with the budget crisis, moderate House Republicans who have been working to find a way out of the shutdown actually lost support for a measure to re-open the government using a combination of Democratic and Republican votes.

That plan, a so-called “clean” continuing resolution, or CR, would fund the government at existing levels—ignoring both Democratic efforts to erase the effects of sequestration and Republican efforts to defund the Affordable Care Act or institute a one-year delay in the controversial law.

At an afternoon press conference, President Obama urged House Speaker John Boehner to do just that. “There are enough reasonable Republicans and Democrats in the House who are willing to vote yes on a budget that the Senate has already passed,” the president said. “That vote could take place today. The shutdown would be over.”

But even as he was speaking, the scenario appeared to be unraveling, with a handful of center-right Republicans who had publicly backed a clean CR abruptly reversing their stance—some denying that they had ever supported it in the first place.


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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/09/shutdown-setback-republicans-are-bailing-on-clean-cr.html

[gopiscrap]

1. Figures the moderates got threatened and chickened out

if they had any real courage they would have left the teathuglican party and become Dems

[cali]

2. yeah. pretty predictable. chickenshits. not that they're real moderates.

[gopiscrap]

3. kinda what I was thinking also

[liberal N proud]

4. I am sure there is extortion taking place with in the republican party as well.

We know they are willing to extort for their own needs, so why wouldn't they extort their own members?

A republican starts from the premise that he will get exactly what he wants, even if it is at the total expense of the opposite party.


That isn't a negotiation!

[OregonBlue]

5. I agree with the president. Make them go on record. Like he said, at least then the American

people will be able to see where folks stand. They'd rather hide behind anonymous "it can't pass" statements or pretend to their constituents that they would be willing to vote yes, if only. They are cowards.

[dkf]

6. If the moderate R's wanted a clean CR they would have done the discharge petition.

So it was obvious they would break this way when push came to shove.

[City Lights]

7. They are such cowards. nt

[gordianot]

8. Some delusional advisors has convinced them there will be no consequences if they hold out.

Every day we get more proof that you can not deal with extortionist. They are willing to risk a collapse of the Federal Government and could care less what happens to the rest of the world.

[geek tragedy]

9. There is no such thing as a moderate Republican. They are no more real than unicorns. nt

[wandy]

11. Nice to see I'm not the only one that sees this. nt

[BeyondGeography]

10. This is the easy week to be "courageous"

Next week will be a little harder.