CSPAN:
The House voted early Sunday morning to pass two amendments to the continuing resolution and an additional bill that would continue to pay for military personnel in the event of a government shut down. The separate military pay bill passed 423-0.
The two amendments are a one-year delay in the implementation of the health care bill, which passed 231-192, and a full repeal of the medical device tax, which passed 248-174. The House Rules Committee met to set the rules of debate on these amendments that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) discussed in the Republican Caucus meeting Saturday morning. In addition, the continuing resolution moves the deadline back to Dec. 15.
Senate Majority Leader Reid has said he will not accept another bill that contains the provision to delay or defund the health care law.
On Friday, the Senate voted, 54-44, along party lines to approve the continuing resolution, a bill to fund the federal government past September 30th, the end of the fiscal year, after stripping out a provision that would defund the Affordable Care Act and moving the next deadline for a budget from Dec. 15 to Nov. 15.
He can, under Senate rules, move to table one or both of the amendments, which would require a simple majority vote and send the Senate-amended version of the bill back to the House. News reports indicate that the House leadership is planning for this possibility.
Oh, the names they’ll call us. I almost can’t wait!
And my civility notebook — heretofore filled with such mild-mannered rebukes to our position (we’re “anarchists”, “arsonists,” “racists,” “nativists”, “hostage-takers,” “suicide bombers,” “Hobbits,” “wacko birds,” and “Visigoths” hell bent on denying the legitimacy of government and pillaging the language, all while waging an all out war on women and women’s naughty bits and the tubes leading to and fro) — may actually be even more excited than I am. If the black and white speckled notebook boner it’s sporting is any indication.
Will the GOP House leadership say it’s done all it can do — which is code for “goddamn Hobbit extremists won’t give us the votes to be ‘smart’ and pass a clean resolution, so that we can pretend to take this fight up again during the next government showdown over the debt ceiling” — and simply resend another amended version back to the Senate?
Or will Boehner see if he can’t caucus with the Dems and ram something through in order to avoid taking blame for a government shutdown that is the responsibility of Reid, Obama, and the Senate Democrats (no thanks at all to the timidity of the Senate GOP leadership, who cared only about posturing and political cover, betting on our stupidity and ignorance of procedure)?
My friend Benny the Nose is giving 3:1 that Boehner twists enough arms to get some kind of surrender — dressed up as strategery — done and back to the Senate in time for Happy Hour.
What if the government does shut down and practically no one is affected?
If I caught that radio newsblurb aright, it sounds as though the vote has been taken and came out 54 – 46, the nays taking it. Haven’t seen a roll-call yet, but note there are 54 nominal Democrat votes and 46 nominal Republicans.
I’m still holding out hope that their complex game of interdimensional 16-D chess will work out.
Seeing as how it always does…
the undertaker passing out bananas sez:
Reid: We’re ‘Entering a Banana Republican Mindset’
Silly Visigoth. You might as well ask, “What if the sun comes up again tomorrow?” or “What if the law of gravity continues to operate despite Obama’s executive order repealing it?”
How are the felons at Club Fed going to get their ice cream sundaes if the ice cream scooper is furloughed? I’m pretty sure that forcing these guys to make do with self-serve soft-serve would constitute Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
Don’t worry, Peter, Peter, Dem-shit eater, is on the case.
The working-for-Obama-press takes the uprising of a quasi-conservative House as an outright insult: the way they see it, these upstart Representatives ought to be cowering in fear — of them! But wonder of wonder, the miscreant House doesn’t wholly appear afraid. Where on earth — the working-for-Obama-press queries itself — has this come from? It’s inconceivable.
Wherever it’s come from, someone is going to pay, they’re telling themselves (and whoever will listen to them).
And yet, with all their threats, it just keeps on coming on. Why doesn’t it stop? It has always stopped before? What’s different this time?
For all the polling to discern who gets the blame, is there anyone asking people if they give a shit about a faux-shutdown? It seems to me that we could save a few shekels in this process. I’m all for it.
dingy harry has now got the “table” ready
I loved it when O’Jugears came out this afternoon and started in with the “These guys are one faction of one party in one part of the government and they want to have everything their way” (I paraphrase) trope. I thought to myself: Geez, he just described himself to a tee.
#Oselfish
What the BSM says is unimportant, and we do not hear their words.
And you’re supposed to be the Leader of the Free World. Whining is what you bring to the table?
I got that.
My favorite Obabo soundbite from this morning was the one about how Republicans are hurting women, veterans, and children.
Literally. Conservatives are out there STABBING CHILDREN to protest Obamacare.
maybe modo could ask about O!’s ears
So it’s Kenya on the DC mall?
Oops, DC Mall is now a “walk free zone.”
Oh, but it wasn’t literally-literally, you see…
Well if I can’t legally walk through the DC mall during the shut down can I at least crawl on my belly obsequiously, across the DC Mall, begging for the right to keep some of that stuff I have, that I didn’t build, in between sorrowful mouthfuls of unsolicited peas?