House GOP Blocks Vote On Re-opening Government (So much for the moderate Republicans)

[Mass]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/house-gop-blocks-vote-on-reopening-government

The House rejected Wednesday an effort by House Democrats to put a clean temporary spending bill on the floor, closing one opportunity to re-open the federal government.

The complicated process went like this. House Republicans proposed a partial spending bill to fund the National Parks Service. House Democrats moved to replace that bill with the Senate-passed spending bill that would fund the government as a whole.

House Republican leadership rejected the motion. House Democrats appealed the rejection. House Republicans moved to block the appeal, and the House then voted 230-194, largely along party lines, to block the appeal.

If the House had allowed the appeal, there might have been a chance for the Senate spending bill to come to the floor for a vote Wednesday evening. The expectation is that the Senate bill would be approved if put up for a vote, with moderate Republicans joining Democrats to pass it, ending the government shutdown.

We hear a lot about the moderate Republicans, but there is nothing to see.

Roll Call here: ZERO GOPers voted for it. EVERY DEMS did: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll512.xml

[joshcryer]

1. wtf

crazyland

[Mass]

2. Once again, there are no MODERATE republicans.

They whine, they cry, but they follow the Tea Party orders. So, stop hoping they will do something.