Bonehead Folds To Tea Party Caucus: Agrees to Tie Overall Budget to Obamacare Funding

[cali]

John Boehner (R-Ohio) will cave to the Republican Party’s right wing and introduce a continuing resolution that strips funding for Obamacare. Senate Democrats will block this, and then … well, nobody knows for sure. If somebody doesn’t figure out something by Sept. 30, the government will shut down.

Here’s the good news about the bad news: Boehner ‘s latest move was almost preordained. It doesn’t necessarily mean that national parks, DMVs, or the U.S. Army will have to put up “Closed” signs, come Oct. 1.

It isn’t that Boehner and House GOP leaders prefer to put their names behind a measure that stands almost no chance of becoming law. It’s that they never had a choice. Enough Tea Party conservatives are adamant about attaching a defunding provision to any continuing resolution that they can stymie any Boehner alternative. (They did so last week.) When I spoke to Representative Tom Graves (R-Ga.) shortly before this news broke on Tuesday, he said that more than 60 Republicans had signed on to his one-year defunding plan.

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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-18/boehner-gets-it-over-with-agrees-to-tie-overall-budget-to-obamacare-funding

[DCBob]

1. I think we are really headed for shutdown this time.

The RWingers are foaming at the mouth about Obamacare again and may have enough votes to block anything other than what they want... and the Senate Dems and the President dont seem to be in the mood to compromise.

[kentuck]

2. What a loser!

Instead of following the stupid "Hastert rule", he should open up the vote to the full House. After all, he is supposed to be Speaker of the full House, not Speaker for the Tea Party Only...