Breaking - REVOLT: Moderate House Republicans working to line up votes on their own plan

fucking shit bags.

The Dow was off only 129 today but tomorrow is likely to be a total bloodbath if the morons get their way. Overseas institutional investors are likely to flee.

ETA: Google all the articles on this nitwit: http://meadows.house.gov/#dialog Apparently he's the Moron in Chief and has been twisting arms behind the scenes for months. He's a one issue Rep and in a safe seat.

He's the main architect of the current round of economic terrorism.

Their concerns are solely selfish and economic.

... under a table with no clue WTF is going on up the street ...

....of Guapos in Shirlington. Seen him there entering through the back door to drown his sorrows with crappy margaritas.

Given, that was before he was Speaker and nobody gave a hell who he was. It wasn't like he was the only Congressman there getting wasted 11am-2pm on a Wednesday.

The man is mental. Great gif.

That's easily the best thing I've seen on DU in months, if not years.

We have a bonafide war going on!

bring it on!

VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/peter-king-wont-vote-for-another-bill-amending-obamacare-tired-of-ted-cruz-calling-the-shots/

This could be the end of the tea party

Congrats on the no-no for the last game of the season. I watched it. The first no-no I've seen live. It was a nail-bitter to the very end!!! Pure awesomeness.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program.

Sof

The pitcher was on deck and you saw how they all went nuts after that last play. It was great

siding with the Democrats?

Otherwise the speaker will keep applying the unwritten Hastert rule.

Don't they need to follow the so-called Hastert rule where they need a majority of Republicans to support it before it can be brought to the floor?

It's not even codified.

They can just dump the rule and ignore it. Sometimes they have to break their stupid robotic tradition.

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/28/17134595-boehner-eschews-hastert-rule-for-third-time?lite

And of course the right wing conservatives were furious with him every time he did it.

If moderate 'thugs wants to join us to stop this crap, then their jobs just might be saved. The 'baggers are too far gone and it's time to dump them like the rancid meat they are.

I doubt that this could succeed, but wouldn't it be nice if it did?

They do.Democrats and moderate republicans could pass a clean Bill.The senate bill If you will.

I doubt that will be allowed.

otherwise, what then?

Just 23 of them is needed.

Permanent minority status for both factions!!

their time. I wonder if any Dems are trying to get them to switch. Remember Jim Jeffords, who switched from R to I?

Is there not a single event or story that does not double as an excuse to frame the country rightward?

If King is a moderate Republican, I am way, way to the left of Karl Marx.

Is it a possibility? What would be the political fallout if that happened?

Sane Republican members of the House have to defeat the Hastert Rule and the unwillingness of the Republicans to bring a measure that does not delay or cut the ACA to the floor. Let's see what the vote is on that alternative measure. No tricks. Just fund what has been voted for already.

some place other than CNN... if they can really override the Speaker... they should have been doing it all along

Here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Most all of them licking the boots of billionaires while they do all they can to make poor folks choose between shelter, heat, and cat food.

I wish each night for the day enough middle class people finally figure out they've been used. As John Fugelsang says, Fox News is rich people convincing middle class people to blame poor people.

in most part because they are C R A Z Y.

The whole lot of them have lost their souls.

Wading through the twitterverse is a little muddled right now, but it looks like the moderate pukes are trying to force Boner to hold a vote on a clean CR. If they dont vote on a clean CR, they'll simply vote to reaffirm that they'll let the govt shutdown go on unless the dems delay ACA for a year

Peter King: 25 Republicans May Vote Against Taking Up Spending Bill With Obamacare Provision

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Monday that he will buck his party leadership and vote against bringing up a government-funding bill that includes a one-year delay of Obamacare. And, he said, there may be as many as 25 other Republicans ready to do the same.

Nearly all Republican lawmakers flooding out of a closed-door meeting scoffed at the idea of passing a "clean" bill that simply funds the government ahead of Monday night's deadline. Most said the idea didn't even come up in the meeting as GOP leaders put forward their latest plan: to pass a bill that funds the government through mid-December but also delays by a year the individual mandate portion of the health care law. Their bill would also end federal health care subsidies for Hill staffers and lawmakers.

Democrats and President Barack Obama are insisting on a clean bill or no deal. King said that when he stood up in the meeting and urged his colleagues to vote for a clean funding bill, with no Obamacare provisions, it didn't go over well.

"Overwhelming silence," he told reporters.

But while most House Republicans aren't inclined to publicly admit they'd support a clean bill, King said as many as 25 of them may join him in voting against the rule to bring up the GOP bill at all. The reason, he said, is because they are worried about the political fallout from a government shutdown, and they don't want to be seen as having voted to cause it. If that block of Republicans holds, they, along with all the House Democrats opposed to bringing up the bill, could potentially sink it.

"They just feel it's a dead end," King said of those lawmakers, without naming names. "Shut down the government and then get blamed for it."

-snip-

Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/peter-king-government-shutdown_n_4018806.html

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013 AT 5:34 PM

not all Republicans are crazy, are they?

If you read between the lines, they're not saying that they will somehow force introduction of a clean resolution, just that if it doesn't happen they won't allow a revote on the Obamacare-delaying version since it already stands and would just be symbolic (like all their earlier repeal votes) and would put the blame clearly on them. They'd rather not have their vote be the last on the record (for publicity reasons) in the event of a shutdown.

To do so something on constant basis and always expect a different result and yet always getting the same one...
How many times have the ass clowns tried to repeal ACA 45 times now?

Not that I'd ever call. DUer insane. To clarify.

King is going to take Cruz down big time !!!

he's trying to run the GOP caucus in both houses like a dictatorship. Daddy Cruz learned from Cuba and has passed it on to his son.

bill. Closing down the government except for pensions, debts and article III judges (payments are constitutionally required) for a few days would knock some sense into Congress, particularly if their pay and airport travel were included.

That is what the Democrats and President Obama have been saying now for many days.

Please let it be so, let them form their circular firing squad and HAVE AT IT!

"while chipping away at Obamacare" part. Having said that, the really good news is that the GOP is falling apart at the seams over the issue. The wider they split, the sooner they will cave.

Keep fighting each other Pukeheads. One party isn't big enough to hold all your egos and you know it. It's time you get a divorce from each other.

bullshit.

Ya always talk about Dems not having spines, s***, seems like GOPers are cry babies with no spines. Eff, they got machine guns pointing at the employees of the US government and are about to gun them down, why, because they are sick and worthless human beings.

Dems are ready for a clean CR vote along with some GOPers. . . .

Do it do it do it do it do it

SHUTDOWN . . .

Assholes

assholes.

I so want to see an absolute bloodbath in the Rethuglican ranks.

''Trapped by the vicious and snarling teeth of its own making, the beast began to gnaw at its own right leg. Opting to rid itself of the offending member, rather than to live with the knowledge that the leg now controlled its every move. No matter what it wanted to do, it always went right. When it wanted to stay where it was, it went right. Even on those rare occasions that it wanted to go to the left, it still went right. It had lost all control. And now it was going even further right than it thought was possible. Life had become nothing but right turns.

No, chewing that sucker off was the only way......''

I'd say righties should look to him, but dems have already overtaken the import.

Please, please o save us heroic Republicans!

"Help me, Representative Peter King! You're my only hope!"



Sorry, this main stream media shit fantasy makes me want to puke.

throw the House back into Democratic control. It's the only way to restore sanity to the House. As Independents, these "moderate Republicans" would be the key players in the House. There is no other way to defeat the crazies in the Tea Party who want the government shut down.

You mean both of them?