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The bill went down in a vote of 195 to 230. Forty-eight Republicans sided with nearly all Democrats in opposing the resolution aimed at keeping the government funded past Sept. 30, when current funding runs out, and through Nov. 18.
Two factions of Republicans had major problems with the bill as they headed into the vote: Conservative lawmakers wanted more spending cuts, and GOP lawmakers affected by recent disasters were uneasy with the bill's provision that tied $1.5 billion in emergency disaster aid to cuts to a fuel-efficiency loan program.
Government Shutdown Looms: House Rejects Short-Term Budget Bill
Seeded on Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:51 PM EDT
Article Source: The Huffington Post
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This is a major defeat not just for Boehner but for Eric Cantor as well the idiot in chief that is trying to link disaster relief and the budget cuts.
#1 - Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:54 PM EDTFed Up
So the Democrats (and some Republicans) vote down a bill that would have kept the government operating, rather than shutting down on October 1, 2011 and you celebrate a political victory.
I hope they get something agreed to, without the disaster funding being touched, before that happens
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#2 - Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:45 PM EDTRobert
When 50 Republicans vote against the Tea Party and other kooks in the Republican Party yes it is a victory.
Fed Up
If you had a basic grasp of what happened you would realize that it was the "tea party faction" that voted against not republicans voting against the trea party faction because it did not cut enough.
You have it backwards.
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This is not the time for more cuts in spending. Any more cuts and the Government will come to a stop. We will not be able to pay the bills that have been run up under "GWB".... We have two unfunded wars to pay for.
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#3 - Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:51 PM EDTdon
True but I do not want the government to shut down either, so a continuing resolution is needed before Oct 1
Time to let Bush go and deal with the budget issues f the Obama administration don't you think, but probably not and that is another debate I guess
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Robert
It would be nice if we never had a President named George Bush because the country would not have been as bad off as it it, and maybe we would never have had a President Obama or this ginormous recession, but alas we did.
Fed Up
All those things are true and what I said about the need to stop blaming President Bush and let President Obama be responsible (not that nearly three years have passed since he became president) for the economy.
But that would ean accepting that he has not fixed the economy as he said hewold within three years of taking office
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So it begins: the beginning of the end of the TEA Party. Here's what's going to happen: the GOP will reintroduce the bill with the Senate language and NO offsets, the Dems will join the "mainstream" GOP in passing the bill while the TEA Party will continue to vote no (i.e. vote to shut down the government) and then everyone in Congress (and the country) will realize that the TEA Party is more trouble than they're worth (and they are not "worthless", they are just more trouble than they are worth) and the inevitable will happen: the TEA Party will fade into history and obscurity, as they should.
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#4 - Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:56 AM EDTSquawCraw
I think yu have nailed it
Voted up a good analysis comment
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