This was due to a mistake by Bonehead who did not run it through the committee, where it would have needed only a simple majority to pass, Bonehead bypassed the committee and took it straight to the floor, thus requiring a super majority. The Republicans are so incompetent
[The Republicans are so incompetent.]
Or corrupt.
Nobody is that incompetent, Boner wanted it to fail and now has the excuse *he tried*. The fix was in from the get-go.
Boner stabbed the wishes of the majority of Americans in the back again and thinks he got away with it.
That guy Fred Upton has got to GO.
He should never have gotten the committee chairmanship.
A complete disgrace.
His actions may have been, for reasons I do not know, deliberate. I do not believe it was incompetence.