No Good Moves For Boehner After Republicans, Dems Defect On Bill To Avert Government Shutdown

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No Good Moves For Boehner After Republicans, Dems Defect On Bill To Avert Government Shutdown

Brian Beutler

To avoid a government shutdown -- and he wants to avoid a government shutdown -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) -- has three options. He can move in the Democrats' direction, and scrap a requirement that disaster relief funds be offset with a partisan budget cut; he can move in the direction of House conservatives and cut more deeply into federal programs -- which would violate a July deal he struck with Democrats; or he can convince those wary conservatives to hold their noses and vote for the federal funding legislation that failed on Wednesday evening.

At a Thursday press conference in the Capitol, Boehner made his preference clear.

House conservatives, he said, "can vote 'no' but what they're in essence doing is they're voting to spend more money. Because that's exactly what will happen."

In other words, by opposing Boehner's funding bill, conservatives are forcing him to negotiate with Democrats who are demanding he remove the "offset" spending cut -- a $1.5 billion hybrid vehicle manufacturing incentive.

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[ProSense]

1. No comment? n/t

[Moosepoop]

2. I'm glad he's finding himself in such a pickle.

Maybe even his fellow Repubs will begin seeing how pathetic he is as a leader.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Bring Nancy back....The Weepster is a loser....too weak and too lolo

[Inuca]

4. Well.... the stupid bill has passed last night

and it is not in the Senate's corner. The dems there seem pretty set against it. We'll see what happenes today...