Housing flip puts Bush in GOP doghouse

[babylonsister]

Housing flip puts Bush in GOP doghouse
By DAVID ROGERS | 7/24/08 4:59 AM EST


A massive mortgage rescue bill advanced in Congress on Wednesday, powered by President Bush’s endorsement but leaving House Republicans and the administration badly split over the government’s response to the current housing crisis.

I am very disappointed,” Minority Leader John A. Boehner told Politico. The Ohio Republican said he did not learn until Tuesday night of Bush’s decision to drop his earlier veto threats and embrace the bill.

At a party caucus meeting, the leadership was applauded after urging a no vote. And in a blast from the past — and one eerily reminiscent of his attacks on Bush’s father in the '90s — former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) jumped into the fray, telling Republicans at the same meeting that it was in their interest to vote no and thereby distance themselves from the White House.

“I told them it was very good for House Republicans to take a stand on their own, separate from the administration,” Gingrich told Politico. “If I were Treasury Secretary Paulson and I were given unlimited authority, I’d like it, too. But it’s an absurd bill. If a Republican administration wasn’t supporting it, it wouldn’t get five Republican votes.”

Rank-and-file conservatives were equally blunt. “When it was announced, there was kind of a moan,” Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) said, recalling the caucus’ response when Bush’s decision was announced. “My personal reaction is that it is unconscionable.”

“There he goes again,” said Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.). “When he really has a chance to stand up and take a tough stand, he’s not there.”

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[SunDrop23]

1. With all his flip flops, he shoulda been in the dog house for a looooong time already.

FUGWB

[hobbit709]

2. I have a house in mind for him

Unfortunately they tore it down a few years ago, but Spandau Prison would have great symbolic value as a place to lock him up for life.

[dweller]

3. bunch of whiners

if they don't want him, they should sign on to the impeachment.

dp