GOP piecemeal plan to mitigate shutdown fails in House votes

[Roland99]

Source: USA Today

Congressional Republicans failed to move forward Tuesday with a piecemeal approach to fund popular parts of the federal government to lessen the impact of the first government shutdown in 17 years.

House and Senate Republicans had offered short-term funding plans to keep open national parks, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, and other government services in the nation's capital. House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky. said the piecemeal approach would "continue to move the ball down the field" towards finding an agreement to resume full government funding.

But the GOP efforts failed to win the necessary support in the House to advance to the Senate. The votes fell well short of the two-thirds threshold needed to suspend House rules.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/01/congress-shutdown-plans-politics-republicans-democrats/2904033/

[CatWoman]

1. bwahahahahahahaha

[bunnies]

2. I cant wait to hear Teds next brilliant plan.

[Archae]

14. Blackadder, right?

Or Count Jeffrey?

[bunnies]

16. I had to google both of those.

[sharp_stick]

17. No not Blackadder

actually Baldrick was always coming up with Cunning Plans, pretty much the same outcome as Cruz though.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Can't even pass their own devious plans

These GOP turds are the most mean spirited bunch of idiots I've ever seen. Completely unproductive, unhelpful and absolutely incompetent.

[Dawson Leery]

4. The GOP cannot even pass their own plan.

[Cryptoad]

5. How now Brown Cow? ,,, ,,, nt

[Scootaloo]

6. They can drown in their own shit, and I'll just laugh

A schadenfreude laugh, perhaps, but still sincere.

[bemildred]

7. So Boner still can't count. nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Fund it all or not at all

I think that this is even worse than what they're doing with the CR. This way they can pick and choose between funding only the parts of government they approve of and keep the parts they don't like shut down. I wonder if this is has been their master plan to destroy the parts of government they don't like and have always wanted to get rid of (but were never able to do). Disgusting.

[Roland99]

9. They'll try to spin this as the Dems' fault since the only Nay votes were (D)

despite a few dozen Yea votes from Dems, too.

[Purveyor]

10. Cantor just proclaimed what you said on CNN about 20 minutes ago. Next him hauled out

the NIH and the turning away of children. Tomorrow's script.

[Roland99]

12. As predictable as bigotry at a KKK rally

[bunnies]

11. Fine by me.

'Dems reject GOP gamesmanship' is a headline I can handle.

[questionseverything]

13. all about trying to change the narrative

just like all day they have been saying,"dems wont go to conference" when repubs did not offer to until 11:45 pm last night

obviously we are past time to work anything out but a clean CR

[Swede Atlanta]

15. No because the rational, and I use that term carefully, "rational" Republicans

realize this is a lose-lose proposition for them.

[TomCADem]

18. Perhaps Because The Plan Is Stupid...

...seriously, why don't we just start approving federal expenditures receipt by receipt. This is incredibly stupid.