Debt Deal Comes Back to Haunt Boehner in Disaster Aid Fight

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/09/22/bloomberg_articlesLRXS6T6K50Y9.DTL

Brian Faler and Laura Litvan, ©2011 Bloomberg News

Thursday, September 22, 2011

(Updates with Durbin, Schumer comments beginning in sixth paragraph)

Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- House Speaker John Boehner once again is facing a rebellion of rank-and-file Republicans over spending with a government shutdown looming.

This time it's a disaster assistance bill that includes a stopgap budget measure needed to keep the government running into next month.

Tea Party-backed freshman and veteran lawmakers helped kill the measure yesterday because they said it spends too much -- a problem for Republican leaders with a bill intended to implement budget levels agreed to last month as part of a compromise to raise the debt ceiling.

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1. Boehner should never have said yes

to that first cup of tea.