You said it, they stink on ice:
The size of a bloc of GOP moderates ready to bring down a vote on the House floor over the government-funding bill shriveled from 25 lawmakers on Saturday to just two when the House voted just now to pass the rule.
New York representative Peter King and Pennsylvania representative Charlie Dent, two key moderates, voted no, while four hardline conservatives, including Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, voted no because the bill didn’t draw a hard enough line against Obamacare.
Good for Dent and King all the more that they went it alone. King voted against impeachment too, FWIW. Got to give these IRA-loving types credit, sometimes. They may be crazed tribalistic bloviators, but they have more sand than the Collinses and Grahams.
lamh36
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
Haha!
Please god let them shut this thing down. I want to see a Bonus Army in Medicare scooters mobilizing on Washington.
Warren Terra
As long as we’re detailing the exploits of Peter King, isn’t he also the IRA-loving, Islam-hating fellow Charles Pierce loves to deflate?
Baud
@Warren Terra:
Nobody’s perfect.
Spaghetti Lee
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader:
That’s the thing. I don’t think SS or Medicare get affected, or at least not totally. Neither does the military or the post office. In other words, only people who the Scooter Army would refer to as ‘GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRAT MEDDLERS!’ get hosed.
Higgs Boson's Mate
Well, at least Boehner knows how smart they are.
Spaghetti Lee
@Warren Terra:
C’mon, who hasn’t funded a terrorist group or two over the years?
IowaOldLady
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: You’ll probably have to wait for the debt ceiling fight to see that. Social Security and Medicare will continue to function in a shutdown, just like the Exchanges will. Tomorrow is a big day in more ways than one.
Sly
As I said in the other thread, King and Dent represent marginally Republican districts, and are of the very few in the House more likely to fear a competent Democrat in the general election that a lunatic Republican in the primary. In other words, the Rockefeller Republicans are either dead or became Democrats years ago.
The other four votes came from people (Bachmann, Gohmert, the other King, and Broun) who, in any civilized era, would be walking around Times Square in nothing but a billboard with the words “Repent! The End is Near!” blazoned on front and back, and selling pencils from a cup.
dmsilev
Interestingly, there were more defectors on the actual vote (13 GOP nays).
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
One good thing that will come out of a government shutdown is knowing exactly what will be affected and how in a government shutdown.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@IowaOldLady: I haven’t had the time to look into what is affected and how because I’m putting in 70 hours a week at work. I don’t get to stop doing my job because it conflicts with my political ideology like Republicans.
Spaghetti Lee
My lord, C-Span’s twitter feed is ten pounds of fail in a five-pound bag. I mean, I’m not expecting it to be all liberals, but I’d think a classy joint like CSPAN would screen for misspellings and complete sentences at least.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: 70 hours a week? How do you find time to think?
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@BillinGlendaleCA: Luckily, I’m not paid to think so any thinking I do at work is my own to use as I please outside of work.
Chris
@Sly:
This.
There are no moderate Republicans.
Ash Can
@Warren Terra:
Yep. He’s a schmuck, all right. He’s just having a moment of decency here.
MikeJ
Tampa Bay 3 – 0 Texas
Sly
@Spaghetti Lee:
You’ve never watched Washington Journal, I take it?
Chris
@Warren Terra:
The IRA lover is the voice of moderation.
And that should tell you everything you need to know about the GOP.
Ruckus
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Many people used to work 70-80 hrs a week. Myself among them. For weeks and months on end. At one time not too long ago in our history that was a normal work week, even for kids. You can thank unions for creating a little sanity in the world even if you never belonged to one.
On my last job I averaged 3000 hrs a yr as a salaried employee. That’s 60/week average, although some weeks were almost twice as much and some a lot closer to that mythical 40 hr week. That may be why I really don’t want to have to work till I die. I already put in enough time to count as having done that.
muddy
@Spaghetti Lee: You know it doesn’t count when the terrorists are white.
Warren Terra
@Baud:
Wrong screwball comedy; you’re quoting Some Like It Hot, the post is quoting Mel Brooks’s History Of The World Part I.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@BillinGlendaleCA:
When I was a machinist I would often work 84 hours a week. Those were the years when I maxed my SS deduction before the year was out.
Anne Laurie
@Ash Can:
Pete King’s a mucker, one of those guys who survives every purge by staying one step ahead of the true believers. If Ted Cruz is a Leninist, Pete King is a Stalinist — and you remember which faction got to run the Russian empire.
I wouldn’t trust him to make change for a ten without a couple ones sticking to his fingers, but if Pete King has publicly denouced & repudiated the Teahadists, that’s a good indication that they are on the downside of their reign.
Villago Delenda Est
The GOP ‘moderates” are all worthless and weak.
They need to drop and give me 50, right now.
Villago Delenda Est
@MikeJ:
Good.
The team of the deserting coward needs to lose.
schrodinger's cat
DougJ@top
GOP true believers are in agreement with you, I think.
Joe Buck
So what happened to several other “moderates” who’ve attacked the strategy? Are they afraid of being primaried? At least California Republicans have cover; California has a top-two system now so a far-right Republican can’t eliminate an incumbent.
johnny aquitard
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: There was that general surgeon guy complaining in one of Mayhew’s posts about working 60 hour weeks and only getting a couple hundred bucks an hour. Only.
I was tempted to marvel about the balls on these people, but it’s not the size of their balls thats amazing. It’s the size of their sense of entitlement and their conviction that no one else ever worked a 60-hour a week job, and their utter inability to grasp that lots of people have worked and currently work far more hours for 20 times less. And few if any health bennies.