Budget spat leaves House GOP leaders facing new discord
Source: WBAY-TV, ABC affiliate in Green Bay, WI
WASHINGTON (AP) Whether the issue is immigration or federal budgets, Republicans keep learning a bitter lesson: Their sizable and near-historic congressional majority doesnt necessarily mean they can govern.
House Republican leaders confronted that truth again this week when fiscal conservatives unexpectedly blocked a leadership plan for the new federal budget.
The struggle, which pits Republicans who want a more robust military against those bent on cutting spending, will have to be resolved later in the full House.
Even if that happens, however, lawmakers say GOP leaders will still confront deep ideological divisions that could wreak chaos later this year when its time to raise the debt ceiling, fund the government and address other big issues that fire up conservative talk shows.
Read more: http://wbay.com/ap/budget-spat-leaves-house-gop-leaders-facing-new-discord/
Years ago, PJ O'Rourke said republicans are positive that government can never work.
And they get themselves elected to prove it.
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BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)THAT is the crux of the most hypocritical of stances of their party... And for the first time, the "media" (AP of all places) is pointing this out. There is a whole wing of the GOP (neocons) who for some reason think that "more military spending" is not "spending" and another wing of the GOP (fiscal conservatives) who refused to call their own out for "more spending". They have gone in and gutted domestic programs while trying to ratchet up the war machine, and then proceeded to whine about "the deficit". I just hope that we don't get some sort of false flag op masterminded by them in order to justify more war.