{"id":14811,"date":"2015-02-28T13:07:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T21:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14811"},"modified":"2015-02-28T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T21:07:57","slug":"which-of-boehners-statements-is-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/28\/which-of-boehners-statements-is-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of Boehner’s Statements Is a Lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday John Boehner, aka Agent Orange, proved that the Republican Party is too incompetent to govern, as their own Homeland Security extension came to the floor and failed.  Leadership with such a large majority should at least know how their own caucus is going to vote to spare themselves the humiliation of such an incident.  In the end, he had to obtain Democrats help so save his bacon, and more important, spare the country a DHS shutdown.  Did he lie to her to obtain that help?<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0228Boehner\"Republicans vowing to govern effectively as a congressional majority failed a fundamental test Friday, when House leaders only narrowly managed to avert a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security after an embarrassing defeat earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

The seven-day funding extension, approved by a vote of 357 to 60, came just hours before money for the department was to run out at midnight. The accord was reached after a stunning and humiliating setback for Speaker John A. Boehner and his leadership team earlier Friday, when the House voted against their original plan to extend funding for the department for three weeks<\/strong> \u2014 a position that Mr. Boehner had considered a fail-safe. More than 50 House Republicans defected, voting against the bill.<\/p>\n

The speaker was rescued by Democrats, who supported his offer of a weeklong extension because they believed it would lead to a vote next week on full funding for the department through the fiscal year<\/strong>, without any provisions related to President Obama\u2019s executive actions on immigration included in the House\u2019s original legislation. A spokesman for Mr. Boehner said the speaker had made no promises or deals with House Democrats to guarantee such a vote<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour vote tonight will assure that we will vote for full funding next week,\u201d wrote Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, in a letter to her members on Friday night urging them to support Mr. Boehner\u2019s seven-day funding measure. The House vote came after the Senate had already agreed to a seven-day funding extension.<\/p>\n

About 10 minutes before the funding was set to expire, the White House announced that the president had signed the weeklong extension\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow covered the story of the conflict.<\/font><\/p>\n