{"id":5489,"date":"2011-07-30T00:04:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T07:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2011-07-30T00:04:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T07:04:27","slug":"boehner-limp-again-mcconnell-walks-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/30\/boehner-limp-again-mcconnell-walks-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehner Limp Again, McConnell Walks Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

After several false starts, the Boehner Bill finally passed the house without a single Democratic vote, not even from the most cowardly blue dog.  But the Boehner Bill could not stand up to the first motion in the Senate to table it.  Every Democrat and six Republicans voted it down.  Based on the way he was talking earlier in the week, I had hoped in vain that Mitch McConnell (R-KY) might be reasonable in the eleventh hour.  He announced that he will filibuster the Reid plan, and he refused to negotiate with Reid.  Here\u2019s more.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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\"30limp\"The Senate voted Friday evening to reject Speaker John A. Boehner’s debt-ceiling plan just hours after it moved through the House, setting up a dramatic weekend of negotiations as Congress works to stave off a potential federal default.<\/p>\n

The Senate tally was 59-41 on the motion to table the House plan<\/strong>, including some Republican votes.<\/p>\n

Even as leaders from both parties engage in frenetic talks on the way forward, the House will hold yet another symbolic vote. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced the chamber plans to hold a vote on legislation that closely mirrors Reid’s plan, planning to kill it  even before the Senate can adopt it\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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As of the time I collected ,my sources, which six Republicans broke ranks was not yet posted.<\/font><\/p>\n

Lawrence O\u2019Donnell provides more detail in two segments, the first with Kent Conrad (D-SD).<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Now Conrad is a terrible DINO, but in this instance he\u2019s right.  Lawrence continues with Ezra Klein and Jay Newton-Small.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

So here we are.  Democrats could not have done more to reach a compromise, going so far that the progressive base is livid.  But in their mindless lust to transfer the rest of the nation\u2019s wealth to millionaires, billionaires and corporate criminals, and to establish a permanent one-party dictatorship, Republicans sowed the wind of InsaniTEA.  I fear we may all reap the whirlwind.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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