Not good enough: Tea Party leaders sink House GOP's spending plan

[babylonsister]

Not good enough: Tea Party leaders sink House GOP's spending plan
By Erik Wasson - 02/10/11 11:30 AM ET


Republicans abandoned a bill to slash $74 billion in federal spending Thursday after coming under heavy pressure from Tea Party-backed freshmen to fulfill the party’s pledge of cutting $100 billion this year, House aides confirmed.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) had intended to release a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government after March 4 that would have cut $32 billion from current spending levels and $74 billion from Obama’s 2011 budget request. He outlined some of the major cuts in the CR on Wednesday.

But the GOP’s large bloc of Tea Party-backed freshmen resisted that plan, instead calling for the full $100 billion cut the party had promised in their “Pledge to America.”

Reps. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) voted against the spending levels at the full committee meeting Tuesday in protest. Flake, a favorite of the Tea Party, is among the most vocal advocates for deep cuts to federal spending.

The growing revolt has forced the GOP back to the drawing board.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/143229-under-pressure-from-tea-party-house-approps-delays-funding-bill-scrambles-for-deeper-cuts-

[elleng]

1. Analogy w happenings in Egypt: SPLITS and SPLITS!

[Historic NY]

2. These people can't govern with Democrats or themselves.

[Xolodno]

3. At this rate....

...Repubs will have to get together with Dem's in order to get anything done because the TEA party won't budge. They really did paint themselves into a corner.

[sasha031]

4. the tea baggers are determined to shut the government down

[spanone]

5. their 'majority' is looking more & more like the dems 'majority'