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Boehner to introduce one-week stopgap to stave off shutdown (Pelosi had more of a pair)
The Hill ^ | 04/04/11 | Molly K. Hooper and Russell Berman

Posted on 04/04/2011 8:17:40 PM PDT by hatfieldmccoy

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is set to introduce a bill Monday night to fund the military through September and fund government operations for one more week, Republican sources tell The Hill.

Boehner's move is intended to prevent a government shutdown that would start after Friday without another measure to fund the government.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said the GOP was trying to prevent a government shutdown "at all costs."

“We’re serious about trying to prevent a government shutdown. We’re also serious about cutting spending," he told reporters after a meeting of the GOP conference on Monday evening.

Boehner told GOP lawmakers attending a closed-door conference meeting that he needed “leverage” going into a meeting with President Obama and Senate Democratic leaders at the White House on Tuesday morning, a lawmaker told The Hill.

“He said he needs this (the as-of-yet-introduced bill) and the support of the conference going into that meeting at the White House, because he feels it gives him more leverage,” the source explained to The Hill.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boehner; budget; byeboehner; continuingresolution; debt; epicfail; republicans; rogers; saygoodbyeboehner
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To: hatfieldmccoy
“We’re serious about trying to prevent a government shutdown."

This is excellent politics.

Boehner is taking the lead with another preemptive strike. Notice that it's Boehner who is leading the efforts, and not Reid or any other Democrat, to prevent a "government shutdown". Boehner knows there will be a shutdown, and he is cementing the notion ahead of time that the Republicans did everything they could to prevent it from happening. See, mindless rabble? It's the Democrats' fault!

I love that the Republicans are finally learning the art of political jiu jitsu.

121 posted on 04/05/2011 1:35:26 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Siena Dreaming

Siena Dreaming wrote:
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The budget IS being cut.
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Congress has cut $10 billion over a five week period via two continuing resolutions.

Yet the national debt is increasing at a rate of approximately $4 billion A DAY!

Pardon the unintended pun, but that just ain’t gonna cut it!


122 posted on 04/05/2011 1:38:29 AM PDT by DestroyLiberalism
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To: Southack

Compassionate, what in the world is that sucking sound.!!!!


123 posted on 04/05/2011 1:39:35 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You are correct, living up to commitments, is just so yesterday, why hell let the spending continue, we will show them next year. Party, party, party. That will last until people say they are lying about fixing things, going to vote, hell why bother. That will be the end results.


124 posted on 04/05/2011 1:47:24 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: jeltz25

You seem to have forgotten about the additional tens of billions a week they are spending at the same time they are “cutting” a week here and a week there.


125 posted on 04/05/2011 1:58:36 AM PDT by mazda77 (Mike Hogan - JAX Mayor)
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To: LUV W

he got the job only because he looks better on TV than the others ... wake up people


126 posted on 04/05/2011 2:41:53 AM PDT by SF_Redux (Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
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To: hatfieldmccoy

Not pleased, but do understand it if they are on the brink of a real deal. We need to put 2011 to bed so we can adopt the Ryan 2012 plan.


127 posted on 04/05/2011 3:59:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: Lazamataz

lol, what makes you think if they don’t have a backbone to win the budget issue in 2011 that the Ryan Plan will ever see the light of day for 2012?


128 posted on 04/05/2011 4:03:19 AM PDT by parksstp (Articulate Conservatives look for Converts. RINO's look for Democrat Heretics.)
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To: Siena Dreaming

I heard the same from a DC insider.


129 posted on 04/05/2011 4:03:36 AM PDT by jenk (ima go with tgo)
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To: Walts Ice Pick

Obama has already cut their SS, by not allowing any COL increases. Not only that, but most SS recipients remember what the promise of America once was. Tea partiers are not dumb, pal. They know damn well that the future of their grandchildren rests on how they push their congress.


130 posted on 04/05/2011 4:13:33 AM PDT by jenk (ima go with tgo)
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To: parksstp
lol, what makes you think if they don’t have a backbone to win the budget issue in 2011 that the Ryan Plan will ever see the light of day for 2012?

Three reasons:

1) 2011 was the opposition's job.

2) The urgency of this budget makes it impossible to negotiate without the 'impending doom' of the shutdown.

3) More time will be available for educating the populace and countering the lies from the Professional Left.

131 posted on 04/05/2011 4:15:49 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: Siena Dreaming

maybe not Boehner, but you sure are displaying the group think of DC.


132 posted on 04/05/2011 4:16:59 AM PDT by jenk (ima go with tgo)
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To: hatfieldmccoy

Delaying the inevitable...

Maybe its time to flush the entire cadre of knuckleheads this next election...

Might be too late by then...


133 posted on 04/05/2011 4:25:40 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus' sayin')
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To: stevie_d_64

boehner needs spinal viagra.


134 posted on 04/05/2011 4:27:48 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: dadfly

I think they are the modern day Whigs. They are simply trying to save the failed system rather than eliminate the root cause of the problem. Sorry but that will not cut it. I am going back to being a happy Libertarian. Republicans are always going to flop.


135 posted on 04/05/2011 4:31:23 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (Obama Sucks)
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To: hatfieldmccoy

Folks if you aren’t on Facebook, sign up if for no other reason than to “talk” to your officials. Boehner is showing himself to be a spineless man who must have forgotten about the november election.


136 posted on 04/05/2011 4:31:53 AM PDT by tutstar
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To: hatfieldmccoy

People who know me but respect my opinion could not understand why I was not optimistic when the Republicans took the House last November.

I tried hard not to be pessimistic.

I want the pink-tie crybaby GONE. Replace him. He is not only worthless, he is AIDING THE ENEMY.


137 posted on 04/05/2011 4:32:11 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: wardaddy

As a matter of fact, I haven’t seen Bachmann cry at all.


138 posted on 04/05/2011 4:32:52 AM PDT by jenk (ima go with tgo)
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To: hatfieldmccoy

So much for winning the House in November.


139 posted on 04/05/2011 4:37:34 AM PDT by fwdude (The world is sleeping in the dark that the Church just can't fight, 'cause it's asleep in the light.)
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To: Siena Dreaming

If we had conservative leaders who know how to play a dirty little game called Politics, it would be an excellent idea.

Did you forget how the left essentially “shut down” a portion of the government out in the midwest recently? The government unions “shut down” the government whenever they need to promote their cause and make a gain. And it works well...because they know how to use it politically.

What does shutting down the government mean? Have you swallowed the propaganda BS that it means shutting everything down, grinding all government services to a halt?

Well that would be incorrect. What they want to do is keep the essential services up-and-running but shut down the non-essential services.

That is EXACTLY what we need to do.

If you don’t pay your electric bill, the utility company SHUTS DOWN YOUR ELECTRICITY.

Well the leftist who ran this country into the ground for the past 5 years HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING THEIR BILLS.

We need an orchestrated campaign to communicate to the people where we are fiscally, how we got here, why we need to shut SOME portions of our government down, AND WE NEED TO PLAY POLITICS IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE LEFT LOSES.

These G-D Republicans keep caving to these effing tyrants and giving ground every day.

AND I’M SICK OF OUR SIDE RUNNING AND HIDING. WE NEED TO SHOVE IT DOWN THEIR THROATS.


140 posted on 04/05/2011 4:38:21 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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