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July 31, 2014 04:23 PM UTC

"House Republicans Simply Cannot be Led"

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Members of Congress were scrambling to make their flights home today for the August recess…and then Republicans f***** everything up again.  As "The Fix" reports this afternoon:

Oops, they did it again.

A spending measure designed to address the ongoing crisis of undocumented children entering at the country's southern border was shelved Thursday because the party couldn't rally the necessary votes to pass it. That decision raised the specter that the House would adjourn for a five-week summer recess without passing any sort fix for the border crisis. And, it amounted to yet another defeat for maligned House Speaker John Boehner and other members of the Republican leadership team who not only pushed hard for the bill's passage but also confidently predicted victory earlier on Thursday. (At press time, there was some question as to whether some sort of legislation could be cobbled together to gain a majority of Republican votes. Even if that happens, the inability of Republicans to pass the leadership-backed vehicle is a remarkable swing and a miss.)

The failure of the GOP leadership's immigration solution fits a now-familiar pattern for Congressional Republicans. Led by Boehner, the party's top brass fight with President Obama on the parameters of a legislative solution to a problem in the country. In hopes of answering the "do nothing" charges leveled at them by Democrats, those same GOP leaders put a proposal on the table that offers a handful of concessions but nowhere near the number the White House is demanding. The tea party faction in the House — led by Sen. Ted Cruz (yes, you read that right) — balks, demanding that the GOP make no concessions of any sort to the president. The party leaders whip support for the bill but, ultimately, find that 20 (or so) of their conference will not be for it under any circumstances. That means Boehner either has to a) pass legislation with Democratic votes or b) pull proposals off the House floor to avoid embarrassing losses.

The issues change — tax increases, immigration, the farm bill and so on and so forth — but the underlying reality remains the same: House Republicans simply cannot be led…

…House Republicans continue to flail helplessly while the country watches, mouth agape.

Yup.

 

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5 thoughts on ““House Republicans Simply Cannot be Led”

    1. Funny thing about that suit. It seems really odd that, while Boehner is suing him for taking executive action to delay a provision of ACA, Repugs, having failed to pass the bill dealing with the border crisis, are suggesting that Obama…. wait for it… just use his executive privilege to deal with the problem. Guess they could claim it's not the same thing at all (and I'm sure modster and AC will) but turns out GW did pretty much exactly the same thing Boehner's suing Obama for and none of the Repugs hyperventilating now, including Boehner, were at all concerned then:

      Boehner's concern is confusing given that he was House Majority Leader in May 2006, when President George W. Bush chose to waive Medicare Part D's penalties for low-income and disabled seniors who signed up late. "Officials determined that collecting the fees from poor beneficiaries would cost more than the penalties themselves," reported McClatchy. The article goes on to suggest that the Bush administration's move was partially motivated to make sure Congress did not pass legislation permanently removing the late-enrollment penalties.

      There is little evident difference between Obama's unilateral delay of the employer mandate in Obamacare and Bush's unilateral delay of the late-enrollment penalties in Medicare Part D (my emphasis). But Boehner sees one as a threat to the republic while the other passed like a breeze in the night.

      http://www.vox.com/2014/7/11/5890633/boehner-is-suing-obama-so-he-doesn-t-have-to-impeach-him

       

  1. So yet again, the House Republican "leadership" refuses to allow a vote on a bill simply because they can't pass it with Republican votes alone – even though they know they have enough Democratic votes for the measure to pass …

    And the Republicans claim that OBAMA is to blame for not being able to forge consensus?

    Crazy.

  2. Who's calling them hypocrites now?

    A pair of House Republicans admitted on Friday that it made little sense to sue President Barack Obama over executive overreach and, at the same time, urge him to act without Congress to solve the border crisis.

    "Look, you can't say on the one hand that the president is overreaching by acting without legislative authority and direction and then refuse to give him legislative authority and direction in another area," Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a frequent voice of moderation in the House GOP conference, said on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown."

    Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) echoed Cole's remarks on MSNBC, promising Republicans were not leaving town until they vote on some sort of legislation to address the influx of unaccompanied minors crossing the border.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/border-crisis-tom-cole_n_5641292.html

    And we all know what RINOs those House members from Oklahoma and Texas are!

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