Boehner Delaying Vote on Republican Debt Plan

[cal04]

Source: National Journal

Speaker John Boehner,-Ohio, is delaying the House vote on his plan to cut the deficit, Republican and Democratic sources told National Journal on Thursday. Majority Leader Eric Cantor's office said the vote would still take place later in the evening.

A Democratic source said only that Boehner was pushing back the vote. A senior Republican source said the House speaker, who was facing opposition in his caucus, had "delayed" the vote.

Boehner's plan would reduce the deficit by $915 billion over 10 years and increase the federal debt ceiling by $900 billion. The bill would allow for an additional $1.5 trillion increase in the debt ceiling early next year contingent on Congress enacting further deficit reductions.

Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/boehner-delaying-vote-on-republican-debt-plan-20110728

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According to MSNBC it's official
It's official, per NBC's Chuck Todd and Mike Viqueira: Boehner's bill has been pulled off the floor for the time being. The House is now re-naming post offices.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/28/7190586-a-delay-on-boehners-bill

[AC_Mem]

1. Something tells me

That the Weeper of the House is having a cocktail or two right about now.....

[curiousdemo]

17. Atica!!! Atica!!! Atica!!! Atica!!

Give your asses in line!!!!!!! Atica!!! Atica!!! Atica!!!!! Boner can't control the inmates...Atica!!! Atica!!! Atica!!!! So long speaker...:nuke:

[mike_c]

2. somebody got their t's and b's mixed up, LOL....

I'd take $900 trillion for $915 billion ANYDAY! :rofl:

[DCKit]

4. No kidding. If only my bank would make that kind of mistake... just once. nt

[RebelOne]

29. Well, as long as you are nitpicking. Any day is two words. n/t

[mike_c]

30. d'oh!

:rofl:

[DCBob]

3. I guess they need a little time for the water boarding to take effect.

what a bunch of losers.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Is this not turning out to be such a "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" day for Boehner after all?

:nopity:

[toddwv]

6. Somebody doesn't have the votes...

Uh oh.

[Fearless]

22. +1000

That's exactly what it is.

[harun]

25. Clearly. He has no good options now. For him anyway. Any bill palatable

to the House GOP will be shredded by Reid in the Senate and laughed off by Obama. However, I still feel there is no chance for default. It's all fun and games until the Upper Class pokes an eye out. Then Congress will move within minutes to avert disaster.

[El Supremo]

7. The Republican House is the bane of Boehner.

What a cluster fuck.

[Inuca]

8. Ezra Klein tweet

That sound you hear is Nancy Pelosi laughing. :rofl: :rofl::rofl: :rofl:

[cal04]

10. LOL Thanks for the post Inuca

can't keep up with those tweets
best place to get news

:hi:

[freshwest]

24. And myself...

:dem:

[florida08]

9. Limbaugh sent out his dog whistle

ruh roh

[OmahaBlueDog]

11. He.Doesn't.Have.The.Votes

Tomorrow ain't lookin' good, either.

[DocMac]

12. No need to read the comments, but

Boner was drunk. Really! I watched and in all honesty, he was at the least, buzzed.

I don't hide my pint issues. I'm that uncle! At least I admit it...and don't go to work that way.

[Grassy Knoll]

20. Boehner Before Lunch Today.....

[cbdo2007]

13. I think it's definitely in all of their best interests, to make any extension last past the 2012

election.

I can't believe Boehner thinks it's a good idea to go through this all again during the primaries and 2012 election.

[renegade2011]

15. See now.....

THIS shit is where the GOP "strategists" get to start reaping the whirlwind of Nixon's "Southern Strategy".
It only took thirty years, but it's finally reached the point where the "Base" is so sociopathic and uncontrollable that even their purported "leader" can't corral their loony asses.

[KansDem]

19. Excellent analysis!!!

...it's finally reached the point where the "Base" is so sociopathic and uncontrollable that even their purported "leader" can't corral their loony asses.

:rofl:

And a belated welcome to DU!!! :hi:

[renegade2011]

28. Thanks

[KamaAina]

14. Didn't have the votes, eh, Boner?

[Faygo Kid]

16. Cantor has him by the teabags. Boehner is finished; Cantor will be Speaker.

Disloyal power-grabbing weasel. They eat their own, don't they?

[Chan790]

21. Better than that...

it likely means that the GOP has no leverage and a lot of gloom going forward:

1.) House GOP passes the Reid bill.
or
2.) Boehner*/Pelosi build a bipartisan bill that carries all the Dems and scrapes off 25+ GOP to pass the House. (Such a bill likely favors Dems, is left-of-center.)
or
3.) The very unlikely possibility that both houses take up and pass the Gang of Six bill.
or
4.) Default and the GOP takes all the blame, probably lose the House and possibly lose 7+ in Senate. 2012 becomes an Obama cakewalk as Americans turn viciously on the Tea Party. Such a scenario likely carries the probability of the GOP having to hastily pass a straight U/D bill after the shit hits the fan to stem their disaster.

*-No matter his tactic, it's unlikely Cantor can move fast enough to take the Speakership.

[AndyTiedye]

23. Eric "Ultrashort" Cantor as Speaker? Ewwww!

[cal04]

18. brian beutler: Dem aide, members alerted to plan on vote tonight

http://twitter.com/#!/brianbeutler/statuses/96716939753308160
Dem leadership aide tells me their members have been alerted to plan on a vote tonight, and not to miss it.

http://twitter.com/#!/StevenTDennis
Senate reporter for Roll Call

Harry Reid says he'll come back to floor at 8:30 p.m., hopefully with a better idea of when/if House will vote tonight (& then Senate)

[IamK]

26. no vote tonight per CNN.... n/t

[L. Coyote]

27. Perfect title? Almost: Vote on Plan for Retiring "Republican Debt"

Time to correct the rhetoric and call the debt what it really is, "the rich Republican, corporate, military debt"

instead of what it is to be used for, the "break the backs of the poor and take away entitlements debt"

or worse still, the "break up the USA and steal the public lands and all those minerals debt".