Boehner, Cantor In Big Trouble After Big CR Defeat

[ProSense]

Boehner, Cantor In Big Trouble After Big CR Defeat

Posted by Stan Collender

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This may have been the worst defeat and biggest rebuke ever for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA). A number of House members told me after the vote that both leaders had worked the vote hard but couldn't convince enough (some thought "any" was more correct) to vote for the legislation. Two members even told me that Boehner had gone to the congressional leadership equivalent of DEFCON 1 by moving way beyond twisting arms to threatening GOP members with losing their committee assignments -- almost the ultimate congressional punishment -- if they didn't vote for the bill. Even that didn't work.

Two things are most noteworthy about this situation.

First, after providing the votes the GOP leadership needed to pass the 2011 CR they didn't like last April and the debt ceiling/deficit reduction bill they didn't want in August, House Democrats for the first time on a major budget bill didn't help the GOP leadership. That's a significant change that some attributed in part to the new, more aggressive tone the White House has been taking on budget and economic issues.

Second, no matter how they try to spin it today as being the Democrats' fault, this in fact was a huge slap in the face of the GOP leadership by the tea party. It's not the first time the tea partiers have voted against the GOP leadership, but it is the most visible and painful.

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[monmouth]

1. When the repubs went home and listened to their constituents, they

obviously got an earful. If you want to be re-elected you better get on the ball and forget this pledge to Norquist, tea party nonsense and get something done. Repubs are out of work also. It must have worked.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. not all of them. Several of them hid like the spineless

bastards and bastardettes that they are. Others demanded $$ to attend, a sure way to keep the unemployed from asking scary questions.

[CakeGrrl]

2. Excellent news. Maybe it's occurred to some of the GOP Congress that

The voters may not send them back to their cushy Washington jobs if THEY don't have jobs.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Yup! Yup!

:bounce:

[Andy823]

5. I love it.

This goes to who just how screwed up things are in the house, and how teabaggers are tearing the republican party apart! The right created the teabagger monster, now they are being devoured by that monster, piece by piece! Isn't it wonderful? :evilgrin:

[DJ13]

6. House Democrats for the first time on a major budget bill ....

.....didn't help the GOP leadership.



I think that explains more than the author intended.

[ProSense]

8. Maybe

"House Democrats for the first time on a major budget bill ...."

...the plan worked.

Still, Boehner is a fool!

[Turbineguy]

7. Perhaps some of the republicans

are changing their "collapse-the-economy-to-get-reelected" strategy.

[opihimoimoi]

9. Too late..The Baggers have convinced too many of their inept decision making

They will lose their races nx year and allow Nancy to regain her Speaker spot....the Weeper has been moot