Moments before announcing defeat to GOP colleagues, Speaker Boehner recited the Serenity Prayer [View all]

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Speaker offered a prayer before announcing the defeat of 'Plan B'
By Molly K. Hooper, Peter Schroeder and Russell Berman - 12/20/12 09:53 PM ET

Moments before announcing defeat to his GOP colleagues, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) recited the Serenity Prayer often heard at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.


“Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference,” the downtrodden House Speaker said at a hastily called closed-door meeting Thursday night to tell fellow House Republicans that he didn’t have to votes to pass his “Plan B” effort to avoid the "fiscal cliff."

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Instead, the House would wait for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and President Obama to act on measures that the House passed earlier this year.

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