Rumor: House GOP May Pass Plan Then LEAVE TOWN

[ChangeUp106]

From Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/government-shutdown-debt-ceiling-default-update-98317.html

Republicans intended to vote on their plan Tuesday evening, but that was thrown into flux 15 days into a government shutdown and just two days before the U.S. government reaches its debt ceiling. Drastic tactics are being considered in House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy’s world: there’s discussion of voting on their bill and, if it passes, leaving town — a bid to try to force the Senate’s hand

[zipplewrath]

1. abandoning their post

I believe that might be called "abandoning their posts" if they were in the military.

They really wanna do that?

[grasswire]

2. send out the federal marshals.

Arrest them.

[FSogol]

5. and ask the public to inform on their locations. Let ABC film

it as a nationwide hide-and-go-seek reality show! Big cash prizes for whoever informs on the location of the last one!

[bluestate10]

3. Treasonous bastards. They want their approval rating to fall to 0.0001% nt.

[Rex]

4. So they want to pass the buck and then flee.

What a bunch of cowards!

[Doremus]

6. No end to the underhandedness. There are some seriously demented minds at work here. nt

[City Lights]

7. They are so mature.

When their tantrums don't work as planned, they take their balls and go home.

Fuckers.

[Wounded Bear]

8. IIRC, they can't recess if the Senate is still in session, can they?

My constitutional scholar hat is in the other room right now.

[texanwitch]

9. How sad.

Why are they talking about it doing it.

Shouldn't they be keeping it a secret.

[surrealAmerican]

10. They should be forced to face their constituents if they do.

Perhaps after they are metaphorically tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail, they would be motivated to do their jobs and pass a clean bill.

[AlinPA]

11. Their constituents (GOP/teabagger voters) love what those crazies are are doing. Democrats in

those GOP districts are not constituents.

[mysuzuki2]

12. great news!

I believe the president has the authority to call them back. If the hard-liners refuse, the rest can pass a decent bill.

[Capt. Obvious]

13. Farting in the elevator

then getting off on their floor.