house votes down reid plan with help of 11 democrats

[spanone]

what now?

[still_one]

1. Just send a bill to raise the debt limit, nothing else /nt

[Snotcicles]

7. A clean bill, that's all it should have ever been. nt

[still_one]

14. The frickn republicans are the ones who pushed that linkage. This country consists of idiots. They

elected a group who were responsible for the financial collapse, and will soon be responsible for it happening again

If there is a liquidity crisis, I hope those imbeciles who voted for the tea party candidates are the first to have their unemployment insurance, credit cards, and health care rejected

These scum have caused a lot of suffering in this country by their actions

[lumpy]

17. You are so right. Scum is too nice a word for republicans.

The people who voted this scum in office will be bellyaching the loudest when reality hits them between the ears.

[maryellen99]

18. They are going to crash our economy

And destroy our country in the process because a black man is president. Unreal

[cascadiance]

34. I think that bill was designed to not pass but test who voted which way...

It wasn't seriously meant to use as means of getting a bill out of the House to the Senate.

Now currently if they were to put forth this bill, with little or no other choices available, perhaps this time the House might collectively vote differently, and I believe the Senate would pass such a bill.

Not holding my breath, but I think then the message should be that you either pass this bill, or crisis happens, and then Obama just uses the 14th Amendment to avert it, when it's been shown that the House is completely dysfunctional when trying to put any kind of useful and practical bill to pass for this. Gives him ammunition to make such a decision then too that would be really hard to impeach him for, without subjecting those trying to impeach him to be impeached themselves, especially if they were part of those that stood in the way of any useful bill coming out of the House.

[Imajika]

21. Nearly half the Democrats in the House already voted that down too....

82 Democrats voted against it to be exact.

[Cleita]

2. Debtageddon?

[Skink]

4. Debtgate

[DURHAM D]

3. Time to name a Post Office.

It passed.

How exciting.

[spanone]

5. reid bill didn't pass....post office name did

[Autumn]

8. What did they name the Post Office?

How wonderful that they got it done.

[DURHAM D]

10. I don't know. I didn't even catch what state it is in.

House will be back tomorrow at 1:00 pm.

Anyone know what is on the agenda?

[anAustralianobserver]

38. I think they called it "The Charles Krauthammer Debt-Ceiling Fight of 2011 Memorial Post Office"

[Autumn]

40. And people say they do nothing

:rofl: priorities.

[hfojvt]

6. has the Reid plan even passed the Senate?

I thought it was gonna be modified in the Senate to gain some Republican votes.

[DURHAM D]

11. No.

This House vote was for Miss Personality - not Miss America.

[gateley]

12. No - can you believe it?? As I understand it they voted

no on something they hadn't even seen. Can they do that? Do I have that right?

[thewiseguy]

13. Well the senate voted down Boehner's plan within minutes of arrival

Democrats and Repubs are each doing their thing. Bipartisanship just left the building....

[gateley]

16. Jeez, bipartisanship left the planet a while ago. nt

[Rex]

15. They do it all the time!

Congress is out of control.

[cherokeeprogressive]

25. Hell, they vote YES on things they haven't read, so I guess they can. n/t

[gateley]

32. Bwah! GOOD POINT!! nt

[Joe the Revelator]

9. What now is right...

[lumpy]

19. I trhink of huge dose of reality is going to be inflicted on the

dolts who voted for the dolts who have infested the Congress.

[maryellen99]

22. I don't feel sorry for the teabagger protesters at all

This is what they wanted.

[lumpy]

29. Well actually I hate ignorance and they are ignorant.

I sure as hell don't feel sorry for anyone who doesn't have the common sense to find out what goes on with the leadership that affects their very lives.

[bigwillq]

20. Roll Call

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll682.xml

[villager]

23. What was that pissing and moaning thread about "missing" the Blue Dogs?

:shrug:

[readmoreoften]

31. There aren't enough Dems voting with Repubs for them I guess.

[cabot]

24. with friends like these.....n/t

[spanone]

26. according to mcconnell, he's been negotiating with the President....@presser

[maryellen99]

27. I don't buy it

They want to default and will stop at nothing to get it.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

28. Who were the 11 DINO's that voted with the Republicans?

I'll bet dollars to donuts my Congresscretin was one of them. If he wasn't I'll be very surprised.

[Davis_X_Machina]

30. Check here...

....http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll682.xml

[cascadiance]

35. Damn it, my soon to be "ex congressman" David Wu was one of the 11!

Perhaps we should have demanded he NOT stay in congress through this vote instead of waiting until after it was over. A lot of f'ing good he did for us by voting against it!

I'd like to hear some of these folks' reasoning before passing judgement, but they owe their constituents explanations.

And Iowa City's rep where I used to go to school, David Loebsack, also voted against it. I sent him money last election. I think I'm going to ask him what he was doing with this vote that justifies me donating to him in the future.

[ProSense]

33. Eleven House Democrats vote against Reid's debt ceiling bill, including

disgraced Rep. David Wu (Daily Kos)

[cascadiance]

36. Damn I was too busy this week to attend Washco Dems meeting on Wednesday night...

Too bad we didn't have that meeting next week instead. We could've started a resolution asking him to step down NOW before he does any more damage to our district! Damn. As soon as I move to a place we have a jerk of a congressman stepping down we have to replace. Before it was Duke Cunningham when I moved to San Diego. Now it is David Wu, supposedly one of our own.

I think minimally he owes us an explanation of why he voted this way if he feels he should continue "serving" us here in Portland.

[sabrina 1]

39. Could you move to Wisc next? Maybe Walker will step

down? :-)

[blkmusclmachine]

37. 14th

or Default. There are NO good options. The WH saw to THAT.