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Subscribe to RSSA Democratic aide tells NBC News that the GOP floor staff informed Democrats that a vote on Speaker Boehner's bill will be delayed. Republicans, however, have yet to confirm that news.
After debate is completed on the bill in the next 20 to 30 minutes, according to the Democratic aide, there will NOT be a final vote on the Boehner bill; instead they will move to suspension bills, in this case naming post offices.
This does not mean that they won't vote on the Boehner bill tonight -- it just means the vote is delayed.
Why the delay? Democrats are speculating that Boehner and House Republicans do not have the votes, although that has not been confirmed.
More as it happens.
*** UPDATE *** It's official, per NBC's Chuck Todd and Mike Viqueira: Boehner's bill has been pulled off the floor for the time being. The House is now re-naming post offices.
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O.K. The house will name post offices as their next order of business, while the Republicans try to find the votes for a debt bill that Boehner jnows will die in the Senate!!!
There has to be a joke in there somewhere.....
Yakov Smirnoff...
"What a country!"
There's your punch-line. Our elected representatives are the joke.
Guessing he doesn't know if he has the votes in his own caucus and pulled the bill.
More like he knows he doesn't have the votes yet...
Ira, it is a stalling tactic. Just heard on MSNBC, they have eight post offices to name, each will take 40 minutes of discussion before they pass each named post office.
Can't wait for the late night quips from the tv hosts.
NorthstarDFL..
Thx for the update...
Post offices...ok Dangerfield, now you can say it...what a country!!!
They are naming them today...
...and closing them tomorrow...
http://www.google.com/search?q=closing+post+offices&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=closing+post+offices&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=JQu&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsu&source=univ&tbm=nws&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=nt4xTqKGJIGRgQeulb3qDA&ved=0CDUQqAI&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=d976eb8bd4f00f5f&biw=1440&bih=660
You could say that Boehner's mailing this one in?
Naming post offices & bridges costs no political capital so of course they're happy to get to work on those things. Its the stuff that could cost them votes (and, you know, actually matters to the rest of the country) that they're too damned scared to touch.
Or here...
Was it kicking & screaming as they drug it away?
If Boehner's bill is MIA for the time being - where's Boehner?
Boehner was last seen doing shots at the local watering hole, somebody said something about crying and beer???
No really, this get more weird by the hour. Now we are re-naming post offices - are any of them slated to be closed?? Sure smells like a stall to me- the question why?
Is boehner going for the drama effect?
Or did some of his votes jump ship after the Senate and President Obama vowed to veto it so the vote now becomes moot. And why would those hanging on the fence want to vote in the affirmative for a bill that is DOA and then have to defend their vote in 2012?
Maybe we will now later tonight or not at all.
Hmm well,
To House republicans: You have many plans on paper, heck, you even have several bills you have passed using your majority. Congratulations! I applaud your desire to run our country from the House.
Now, can you please just acknowledge that you can't rule our country while controlling only one branch of our legislature.
The ironic twist, of course, being that the democrats clearly can't run it with 2 or 3 branches. If they could, we'd have a budget instead of a series of continuing resolutions and we'd have settled the debt ceiling issue months before the American public even caught on to the fact that it needed rising. But it appears the only thing they've done effectively is rant and rave about how their inability to do anything is all the big bad evil republicans fault. So much easier (and better for your reelection chances) to blame those putting ideas on the table than to actually come up with your own, right?
If i put a proposal on the table asking for 100% of what i want and 0% of what you want and it requires both of us agreeing for something to happen how am I furthering the process?
Or better yet, i tell you that my agreeing to even discuss the issue means that i have conceded enough to you that you should go with my plan.
Both sides are being disingenuous.
ROFL!!!
Hey, Spanky, Smiffy, "No Joe", Joe in Albany, etc...stuff that in your "leadership" and smoke it!
They're renaming post offices?!
They should name the post offices after their bills..... then at least someone will refer to or even remember them in the future.
Pay up guys ....that bet was a sure thing !...lol
[They're renaming post offices?!]
Yep, probably the ones they plan on closing...
...you just can't make this stuff up...
Wow ....... the tea party tells Boehner " to get in line" !...lol
Excellent retorts, all!
Thanks for the chuckles.
And Jon Stewart will have a field day with this...
Theme music for the Republicans: "Signed, Sealed & Delivered"
The speaker's bill sucks...And there is NO Plan B...
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TAPPER: Is there any negotiation going on specifically between Vice President Biden and the Senate Republican leader about what happens when and if the Senate rejects the Boehner bill? What happens then?
CARNEY: Well, the Senate will reject the Boehner bill. But the -- as has been made clear by not just Democrats but a number of Republicans who reject the Boehner bill in the Senate, so --
TAPPER: Because it's too liberal?
CARNEY: They reject it, OK? So there is no question that this bill is a political act. It has no life beyond its current existence in the House. We are having conversations at every level. I'm not going to detail the individuals we're talking to, members -- but you can be sure that members of the president's team are continuing the conversations that we have been having for weeks and months, even. And that goes on every day.
TAPPER: But there is -- there is a plan.(?!?!?!?!)
CARNEY: Look, there are a variety of ways to achieve a compromise here. And we are obviously, as our members and leaders of Congress, engaged in discussions about what those plans look like and what the best way forward will be as the clock clicks down here -- ticks down, sorry.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/07/compromise-and-what-next-todays-qs-for-os-wh-72811-.html
Man I fill good got a call from the NRA donated $225.00 to the good cause, also paid $25.00 for a 1 year military membership. Called the Honorable Richard Shelby and Honorable Jeff Sessions requested they stannd firm in the Senate no compromise with reid and the progressives. Man it is a good day to be a member of the Tea Party. Lets get this party started.
Just pass a CLEAN bill, as you always have. Then spend August explaining to your constituents why you want to cut medicare/ss, but insist on protecting the ubber wealthy.
Come September, we should see 'clearer' heads.
Bingo, we have a Winner!
How long does it take to name Post offices:
Ronnie RayGun:
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-14-15-16-17-18-19-20 ?
I vote for the 'Boehner's Default" post office....of course it will be one of the ones they'll be closing soon.
lol....very good
Luke, (great having you on NBC btw)
It's important that readers understand the changes in our government under a three party system; the Tea Party (a very polarized non compromising group with a narrow yet admirable agenda) is
splitting the more centrist Republican Party.
Our government is moving toward a British and Canadian type system that has
three parties and knows the intricacies of compromise to achieve a majority. Our
two party system is dyeing before our eyes and we must learn the art of
compromise to survive.
Boehner must ally some democrats for any chance of passing his bill and he could that by simply extending his debt authority terms from 6 month to 18 months.
Oh, as for Obama, he has no authority to initiate spending bills. He can
suggest and request but only the House can put forth a plan, therefore the GOP
will be blamed for our imploding economy.
It's important that readers understand my previous point; the Tea Party (a very
polarized non compromising group with a narrow yet admirable agenda) is
splitting the more centrist Republican Party.
Our government is moving toward a British and Canadian type system that has
three parties and knows the intricacies of compromise to achieve a majority. Our
two party system is dyeing before our eyes and we must learn the art of
compromise to survive.
Boehner must ally some democrats for any chance of passing his bill and he could that by simply extending his debt limit terms from 6 to 18 months.
Oh, as for Obama, he has no authority to initiate spending bills. He can
suggest and request but only the House can put forth a plan, therefore the GOP
will be blamed for our imploding economy.
I think they're really behind closed doors tonight watching Teletubbies in their nappies, coz when daddy Boehner said go to bed, they said 'no' and he gave in and let them get there binkies and blankies and watch PBS all night.
All I know is that I'm happy when late night comes and we don't have to see one more Tea Party Rep do a Jack (Nicholson) Torrance impression. Getting a little creeped out by seeing all these crazies smiling with their maniacal eyes screaming "REDRUM the US". PLEASE, find the zookeeper and have him lock em up in that hotel together so they can REDRUM eachother and feed off their own red meat.
Somewhere on Capitol Hill, at this hour, inside the Chamber of the Speaker of the House, you can hear this sound being made by John Boehner:
LET THE TEMPER TANTRUM COMMENCE!!!!!
Has anyone awakened Altzheimer Reid this morning. Is he going to do anything today or just walk the halls looking for pennies like everyother day. Someone needs to remind him there is this debt thingy coming up.