Upon the (seriously) last minute, near miss (219-206) passage of the government funding bill in the House,
Democratic Congressional Campaign Chairman (DCCC) Ben Ray Luján
released a statement condemning Boehner for once again catering to
special interests and his “governing-by-crisis strategy”.
“House repugicans just can’t help themselves. Once
again, they took the country to the brink of catastrophe to stack the
deck for special interests, continuing the same governing-by-crisis
strategy that led to their last disastrous shutdown. House repugicans
continue to place special interests and the most extreme right-wing
elements of their party ahead of the middle class while using crises as
leverage. Boehner and House repugicans keep risking our
economic well-being to protect their special interest handouts, and it
is the American people who continue to pay the price.”
Once again, John Boehner (r-OH) couldn’t get
it done in regular fashion, and even ended up calling a recess earlier
today as he tried to get votes together since Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
refused to help him give Wall Street another bailout. Without Pelosi’s
help, Boehner is hard pressed to pass anything, as tonight’s squeaker
exemplifies.
Congratulations to repugicans for sticking Wall
Street giveaways into a funding bill for the government to do essential
things. These are the same people who accuse Obamacare of being
“political” even though it was deliberated for months on end and passed
legally. When repugicans want something, they just stick it on some
essential course of unrelated business at the last minute so it can’t be
properly debated and the press smiles.
Plenty of Democrats ended up going along with this,
pressured into not being responsible for a shutdown of the government as
well as the usual Wall Street friendlies. But it was repugicans who
stuck in the Wall Street bailout business, and Democrats who fought it.
The bill now moves to the Senate, which will pass a
short-term CR, and after debate will pass the government funding bill
before the end of the weekend.
Another chaotic, crisis laden vote over what used to
be normal course of business — funding the government. This is John
Boehner’s legacy.
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