Who needs Democrats when so many Republicans are willing to orchestrate their agenda for them?
The Senate is on the precipice of passing Barbara Boxer’s highway bill with overwhelming support. Mitch McConnell is negotiating a deal with Harry Reid in which Republicans would be granted a vote on some of their choice non-germane amendments. After Democrats summarily defeat those amendments, Republicans will return the favor by voting for the underlying bill, which overspends its revenue source by 43% and raises taxes to bridge the gap.
The sad thing is that S. 1813 is not just Boxer’s highway bill. It was supported by every Republican on the committee level, and only 9 Republicans voted against cloture to proceed with the bill on the floor. In a sane world, McConnell would be negotiating proposals to cut mass transit and eliminate the 10% beautification mandates on the states instead of securing failed votes on non-germane amendments. Then again, most Republicans in the Senate actually support the idea of federally funded transportation. They also buy into Obama’s puerile logic that it will create new jobs, instead of spreading around existing ones.
Consequently, not only will Senate Republicans decline to block the Obama/Boxer stimulus, they will lock hands with Democrats, pass the Senate bill, and jam House conservatives. For his part, John Boehner is using the Senate bill against conservatives, instead of joining with conservatives, to fight this terrible bill. He will lock arms with Mitch McConnell instead of coalescing behind a devolution bill or the original House bill, which pegged spending to revenues. Later today, he will issue a pungent threat to bring the Senate bill to the House floor if conservatives fail to cooperate with his bill. This, from Politico:
In a closed-door meeting planned for Wednesday, top Republicans are going to deliver a tough but simple message: Continue to stand against the bill and you’re opposing conservative policy that will fix the flawed way Congress funds road-building and energy production. Join the team — support leadership’s plan to pass a House bill — and you can be part of the solution.
“The Senate will pass a bill,” a House leadership aide said. “House members will have to decide whether they want to pass a better bill.” […]
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I say get rid of baby boehner too. He is a rat in my book.
Agree. Looks like slimeball.
OHIO are you listening. Boehner has joined with Obama to destroy America. It is time for you to elect a true Country loving American!!! Boehner is a back door Obama Worshper.
bOEHNER IS MERELY ANOTHER STOOOOOOGE (ONE OF THE GOOD ‘OL BOYS) ON STAGE IN THE ONGOING SOROS SOAP OPERA SAGA, DESTINED TO ELIMINATE FREEDOM IN aMERIKA AND THE WORLD IF HE GETS HIS WAY.
Good reason to get rid of him and all his fellow offenders.
I hope that everyone is paying attention to the actions of all of these individuals in the Legislative, Judicial and Executive Branch. When their time comes for re-election that the people vote them out and get all fresh new candidates in these seats, with a very select few exceptions.
Agree. All have to go, all clean sweep, new start for USA.
So what’s new about the old guard Republicans who should be voted out. The Republican leader Boehner is the boss of let’s make a deal and screw the people of America. I saw Boehner sucking up to Obama after a national TV get toegather where Obama told McCain to shut up and sit down, and like a good little boy did what his Master told him to do and when it was all over I watch Boehner rubbing Obama’s back and it looked like he was apologizing saaying he was sorry he couldn’t go along wtih the Boss, I thought Boehner was going to drop to his kness and beg for forgivness, from his god Obama and kiss his….
Republicrats and Demopublicans.
I use to be proud to be a Republican now i’m disgusted. I will never consider myself that again. I am a full fledge red blooded grassroots conservative American. Now that’s something i can be damn proud of. And you know what i am.
me:
click here and think about it: http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz
This country is soooo toast.
starzee46:
Only if the voter-sheep remain in the majority.
The Gutless Old Party (GOP) needs a revamping and soon. Mr. Milquetoast Boehner might as well be a Democrat as in addition to cooperating with them (Let’s not forget he is also impeding Rep. Issa from going forward with investigating the criminal Attorney General) he’s just so afraid of what the media (which would [figuratively] slice his throat if given the chance) might say about him and the Republicans. Doesn’t he get it? More and more people daily understand that the media is not going to tell the truth about anything, so stop caring! If this all ends up badly, they should be aware of the third party undercurrent of fed up conservatives seething below the Republican surface. We need a real man in the Speaker’s chair: I nominate Cong. Allen West.
ConservaDave:
One good choice but there have to be others too; one person can’t do it all.
How about everyone who seeks election being former military, like West? And it wouldn’t hurt if every head of agency, and bureau-head appointment were former military too.
Merit should be the basis of Federal government jobs and should be color-blind and gender neutral.