House Now Has The Votes To End Government Shutdown, But Boehner Won't allow vote

[UCmeNdc]

Less than two days after the government shut down, 17 Republicans have come forward as of Wednesday afternoon to say they're ready to pass a bill to fund the government with no strings attached -- the magic number needed to pass a clean funding bill.

If all 200 Democrats stick together and team up with those Republicans, they have the votes for passage. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) would have to be willing to put that bill to a vote, but if he does, the votes appear to be there. The Senate would pass the bill in no time, sending it to be signed by President Barack Obama and ending the shutdown.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/clean-funding-bill_n_4031784.html

[Agschmid]

1. What will make the speaker bring it to the house?

[postulater]

2. Glenmorangie?

[mnhtnbb]

3. He won't do it because he is a major, fucking a$$hole.

[Scuba]

4. Why do Republicans hate Democracy?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. It gets in the way what THEY want to do

that and they think that they're basically entitled to that residence located there at 1600 N. Pennsylvania Washington DC They seem to believe that electing Democrats to the WH should never actually happen.


"Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic but in your hearts you long for a cold-blooded Republican to lower your taxes, brutalize criminals, and RULE YOU LIKE A KING!"
-Sideshow Bob (The Simpson)

[Siwsan]

5. Maybe they need to sober him up.

Not too much - just enough.

[Kolesar]

6. If Boehner allowed the vote, the RW would try to take away his "speakership"

Maybe John would survive the coup. There was a similar fight a few years ago and he demoted the far right wingers who were plotting against him.

[yodermon]

7. Can't they force it with a discharge petition?

to wit:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/02/democrats-can-use-this-one-weird-trick-to-end-the-government-shutdown/

So here’s Plan B, which would temporarily solve both the funding and the looming debt ceiling crises without requiring Boehner or the Republican caucus to do anything other than abide by the rules of the House:
House Democratic leaders should immediately file a bill with two simple provisions: one, providing for short-term funding for the government until Jan. 1, 2015, and a second lifting the debt sufficient to comfortably get the government past New Year’s (with the shutdown, the two issues are now effectively joined at the hip). The deadline should provide for plenty of time to negotiate a grand bargain while keeping pressure on everyone to negotiate.

Then the Democrats should circulate what is called a discharge petition for a special rule to bring it to the floor for an immediate vote. All it would take is about 20 responsible Republicans to sign the discharge petition, along with nearly the entire Democratic caucus, to create a majority that could force the vote and pass the bill. There are said to be at least that many Republicans willing to support such a bill, and as the shutdown proceeds there will likely be more.

Under House rules, once the discharge petition, with the requisite 218 signatures, is filed with the clerk, it immediately goes on what’s called the “Discharge Calendar.” And once the newly filed “clean” funding-cum-debt ceiling bill has sat in committee for thirty days, petition discharging the committee from further consideration can be called up by any member of the House on the second and fourth Monday of any month. As a “privileged motion,” it would interrupt almost all other business pending before the House.

[AlinPA]

10. "20 responsible Republicans "? Impossible.

[BlueDemKev]

14. There were 25 of them in the Senate

Last week who voted against filibustering the Senate's clean CR (which passed 79-19).

[AlinPA]

15. Yes. I should have specified the House which is the topic here.

[Arkana]

8. If this gets any traction at all Boehner's in real trouble.

The votes exist to pass a clean CR and Boehner won't do it? The media can't possibly stay away from that one.

[AlinPA]

9. There are about 9 "Democrats" who voted with the teabaggers to defund Obamacare the shutdown.

[SmittynMo]

12. Boner is the master idiot. n/t

[Blue Idaho]

13. What a bunch of Ass Hats

They cling to the self imposed "Hastert Rule" like it came down from on high inscribed on a stone tablet. Get over it boys - it the path to the destruction of the TeaPublican party