Republicans scramble for votes as top GOPer bails on budget deal

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Republicans scramble for votes as top GOPer bails on budget deal

by Jed Lewison

GOP congressman Jim Jordan, head of the 175-member Republican Policy Committee, bails:

Add Rep. Jim Jordan, leader of an influential group of conservative Republicans, to the list of GOP lawmakers who will vote against the budget deal that averted a government shutdown.

Jordan, R-Ohio, is chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, whose ranks include dozens of the freshmen GOP members allied with the small-government Tea Party movement. He says the measure, which cuts $38 billion in federal spending for the remaining six months of fiscal 2011, doesn't go far enough.

Jordan's defection comes as Republicans admit they might not have enough votes within their caucus to pass the budget plan, meaning they would need to turn to Democrats for votes:

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It only takes two-dozen defections for the GOP to need Democrats to get a bill passed, so Friday's vote to avert a shutdown would not have passed without Democratic support. Unless Republicans figure out a way to flip some of those twenty-eight members who opposed the stop-gap, they're going to need Democrats to vote for the final deal.

As amusing as it will be seeing John Boehner rely on Nancy Pelosi to get the deal through the House, the real implication will be that going forward, the extreme right flank of the GOP will have proved itself utterly irrelevant to the process. If they couldn't support a simple CR to complete the FY2011, there's no way they'll be able to support funding bills for FY2012 and beyond. And if the only thing they are ever going to do is vote 'no,' then there's no point in including them in negotiations, because when it comes to getting things done, they just don't matter.

[wryter2000]

1. Whotta concept

Needing Democrats...K&R

[Kber]

2. i wonder what Nancy (who strikes me as a decent negotiator) might want in return?

I mean, we have our own folks to satisfy too, right?

[sharp_stick]

3. Something tells me that

Bohener's demand's for something significant in return for raising the debt limit are about to be scaled back pretty dramatically.

I wonder how much daylight there is between him and the teabaggers now that they've basically abandoned him on this after promising to go along.

[yellowcanine]

4. Undercuts Boehner going forward. He will have to compromise more with Dems.

I almost feel sorry for him. Okay! The feeling has passed. Just gas I guess.

[kenfrequed]

5. I wonder...

Is there a way to get more of them to vote no?

Of course this could be a 'stand firm' trick to draw lines on the map and pull the republicans further to the right and more with the most extreme members of the tea party. Or the small government liar might be trolling for bucks for whtever pork product project he has going in his district.

[zbdent]

6. So ... what will the Dems cave in on, to appease the Repugs?

Whoops, sorry, was channeling the sentiment of most of DU ...