Ruh roh, sane Republicans may pick fight with Boehner and the Teahadists.

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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/359969/moderates-revolt-over-cr-jonathan-strong

In what is by far their boldest stand since the GOP took control of the House in 2010, a group of them are threatening to bring down a vote on the rule for the government-funding bill scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

New York representative Peter King is leading the charge, and his fellow New Yorker Michael Grimm is close behind him. The group told leadership on Saturday they have 25 members who are willing to bring down the rule.

That number of defections would defeat the rule, which, like all such votes, is a party-line affair. “How many of them are going to follow up today with the pressure and everything else, I don’t know,” King told me in a phone interview.

[Andy823]

1. Works for me.

Peter King doesn't much care for Cruz, and he has said he too will run for the nomination in 2016, so it looks like he is going to be the one running for the more "sane" part of the party, if there is one, while Cruz is trying to get the "insane" part of the party. This is going to be good! I can hardly wait for Cruz to start telling Boehner what to do.

[warrior1]

2. what took them so long

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5. Cowardice nt

[warrior1]

3. what took them so long

[BlueStreak]

4. The "rule" I assume is the "Hastert Rule"

which isn't actually a rule, I don't think -- only a gentleman's agreement that the speaker won't bring up any bill that doesn't have a majority of the Republican caucus. What is significant here is that if there are 25 Republicans willing to vote for a clean bill, then obviously a clean bill would pass the House.

I almost never agree with King about anything, but he is absolutely right when he says (my paraphrase) that if Obamacare is only 1/100th as bad as they are claiming, then they will take over the House and Senate in 2014 and sail to a GOP President in 2016. And if they do that, they can repeal the whole thing fair and square. So what are they afraid of?

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6. No, it's a procedural rule to bring the resolution up for a vote. nt

[BlueStreak]

7. OK. I guess the effect is the same either way.

If there are 25 Republicans willing to vote for a clean bill, then it would be a done deal. All Boehner has to do is bring it up for a vote.