John Boehner Says There Won’t Be a Government Shutdown

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NY Times

By NICHOLAS FANDOS

WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner said Sunday that he expects the House of Representatives to pass the Senate’s government funding measure with Democratic support this week, averting a shutdown that has looked increasingly less likely since he announced on Friday that he would resign.

At the same time, and in an apparent move to placate conservatives who have tried to put Planned Parenthood at the center of the budget fight, he said the House will create a special committee to investigate the group.

Fighting back tears as he reflected on his speakership and the fight ahead in Congress, Mr. Boehner delivered a clear message to conservative colleagues credited with forcing his hand: Holding the government hostage to achieve untenable policy goals was reckless and harmful to the institution itself.

“We have got groups here in town, members of the House and Senate here in town, who whip people into a frenzy believing they can accomplish things that they know, they know are never going to happen,” Mr. Boehner said in a live interview broadcast on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

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[padfun]

1. Give em hell, John.. But

don't put any of those wacko's on the special committee!

[n2doc]

2. Only a short term stopgap

And the legislative stakes will become greater. Congress will most likely have to vote this fall on whether to raise the federal debt ceiling as well as deal with the imminent expiration of many highway programs, a continuing debate over reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank and the need for a longer-term spending bill with an expected deadline of Dec. 11.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Shutdown is one thing, default is another

And these Tea Party nuts will ignore the establishment and easily take a shutdown into a default, even with Jeb! or any other Republican in charge. If it it is Hillary, Bernie, or Biden, it will be Obama^2, screw the country over the existance of the Democratic Party or a Republican Party which will not take extreme positions.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Nothing new untill 2016

and then it will be every and all about getting John Ellis Bush elected.

[jtuck004]

5. What do you call 1980? n/t