Has Republican Speaker John Boehner lost control of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives?
I think that’s a question worth asking, especially in the face of reports Speaker Boehner is having difficulty getting enough Republican votes to pass his debt limit legislation.
The endgame at hand, House Republicans struggled Thursday to pass legislation to prevent a looming government default while slicing nearly $1 trillion from federal spending. Senate Democrats pledged to scuttle the bill — if it got to them — in hopes of forcing a final compromise.
As afternoon debate headed toward evening, GOP leaders ordered an unexplained halt on the measure and Speaker John Boehner summoned a string of recalcitrant rank-and-file Republicans to his office.
Ultimately, I have no confidence in John Boehner and Republicans in the House to get some sort of reasonable debt ceiling legislation passed, so I can only hope that when all is said and done Congress will simply pass a quick and easy one-line “clean” debt ceiling increase so that our nation doesn’t default on its debt for the first time in its history.
They are complete clowns separated from reality. And that’s by D.C. standards, which are very clownish and separated from reality to begin with.
Time for Barack to shrug, say “These dimwits can’t get their sh*t together in a realistic way, and I’m going 14th Amendment on this thing.” And he’d be perfectly OK to do so, because the appropriations are already out there through Sept. 30 (the end of this fiscal year), so for him NOT to allow these funds to be spent would be equivalent to Nixon’s impounding (which was found to be illegal).
And let these dimwits try to impeach Obama for saving the country from a debt default. The Dems would win bigger than they did in 2008.
Is this debt limit silliness over, yet?
It sure ain’t solving the 9% unemployment.
Maybe Republicans believe that plunging our nation into an economic crisis will somehow create jobs.
The scary thing is, listening to their rhetoric you’re not far off at all.
Off. The. Rails. Crazy.