Boehner Blasts Dems' 'Chickencrap' Majority Rules Tax Cut Gambit

[Donnachaidh]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/boehner-blasts-dems-chickencrap-majority-rules-tax-cut-gambit-1.php


This afternoon, House Democrats will hold an up or down vote on vote on President Obama's plan to extend tax cuts to income below $250,000, and they've figured out a way to prevent the Republicans from pulling procedural tricks that might sink it -- a straight vote on whether or not wealthy people deserve an additional tax break. Today, at his weekly press conference, House Minority Leader John Boehner compared the move to fertilizer.

"I'm trying to catch my breath so I don't refer to this maneuver going on today as chickencrap, alright?' Boehner said. "But this is nonsense."

Brace yourself for some procedural jargon: Dems once believed they were faced with two mixed options for holding this vote. The first was to hold an up-or-down vote under the normal rules. But that would give Republicans the opportunity to introduce what's known as a motion to recommit -- a procedural right of the minority that would have allowed them to tack an extension of tax cuts for high-income earners on to the legislation.

:snip:

But Democrats figured out a way to avoid this. They're attaching their tax cut plan as an amendment to a separate bill . That legislation already passed the House, and has just been returned from the Senate. The rules say it can't be recommitted. So the GOP's hands are tied.

More at the link ---

[TwilightGardener]

1. That's pretty tricky of ol' Nancy...

:thumbsup:

[NoodleyAppendage]

2. I LIKE. I LIKE! Pelosi turning the thumbscrews in her final moments. Nice. n/t

J

[Vincardog]

3. DO IT DEMS MAKE ME PROUD

[GoCubsGo]

4. Tough words coming from...

...one of the World's foremost experts on "chickencrap" and nonsense.

[Tippy]

5. K&R...hope they dotted all their i's and crossed all their t's

[DearAbby]

6. Thank you Speaker Pelosi

[Skittles]

7. I'll say it

for that smarmy bastard to say that, the Dems must be doing something right! :D

[librechik]

8. What? We used a procedure? FINALLY

YAY

[no limit]

9. So turns out they aren't actually as powerless as they claim to be. I hope this works

and I will give kudos when kudos are due, in this case they are.

[FSogol]

10. Get ready for the RW noise machine to claim, "unprecedented rules violation"

It'll be all we heard tomorrow.

[ljm2002]

11. Way to go, Nancy!

The fact that you got a rise out of Boehner is just icing.

If this lame duck session can kill the tax cuts for the rich while preserving them for the middle class, that would be excellent. It's not like the Republicans would avoid taking major actions if it was their lame duck session.

[Renew Deal]

12. Now is this sort of thing allowed in the Senate?

:shrug:

[hfojvt]

13. now if only that bill could pass the Senate on an up or down

It's reconciliation, right? The bill ALREADY passed the Senate once.

[Enrique]

14. Pelosi: Boehner is known to cry

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/130153-pelosi-said-boehner-is-known-to-cry

Incoming Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said incoming Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is "known to cry."

"You know what? He is known to cry. He cries sometimes when we’re having a debate on bills. If I cry, it’s about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics — no, I don’t cry. I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that’s always a possibility, and if you’re professional, then you deal with it professionally," Pelosi (D-Calif.) told the New York Times magazine.

(...)

[felinetta]

18. Johnny B is just a big girls' blouse!

[Kennah]

15. Makes sense ...

... given that Boner is bat crap crazy.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Good deal!

[librechik]

17. MSNBC is unaware of this development, and instead is talking about Dems dwindling prospects

Friends, the liberal media is not on our side.

on edit Sweet Jesus how I detest Andrea Mitchell