After early run of unity, Republicans struggle to manage House floor

[babylonsister]

"early run of unity'? 4 weeks?? :rofl:

After early run of unity, Republicans struggle to manage House floor
By Russell Berman - 02/09/11 08:15 PM ET


House Republicans suffered their second embarrassing defeat in as many days on Wednesday as the new majority struggled to manage the House floor after an early run of GOP unity.

With help from a senior Republican defector, Democrats defeated a GOP bill that targeted overpayments to the United Nations. A day earlier, 26 Republicans bucked their leadership to block an extension of the Patriot Act.

With a separate trade bill already pulled from the schedule, Republican leaders have failed to advance three of the five bills they had planned for the week. The sudden breakdown prompted a round of finger-pointing within the GOP upper ranks, along with barbs from Democrats who wondered if Republicans had forgotten how to count votes.

Contrite senior aides acknowledged that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had miscalculated the level of opposition from Democrats and from within their own ranks.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/142965-boehner-says-gop-not-perfect-after-patriot-act-defeat

[aquart]

1. You mean, they're doing as well with their majority as we did with ours?

What a world.

[Bandit]

7. Where have you been the last two years?

The House under Democratic control passed hundereds and hundreds of good bills that just died in the Senate.. The House of Representatives was not a problem...Democrats there worked wonders.. It was the Senate that fucked over America.

[Drale]

2. I love watching them fall apart little by little

its better than any reality show ever made.

[babylonsister]

3. Seems pretty swift to me! nt

[malaise]

4. It's fall down funny

:rofl:

[calimary]

5. LOVED all the snivelly-ass pathetic excuses they all came up with.

Steny Hoyer summed it up best:

“It’s emblematic of the divisions in the Republican Party,” Democratic whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said. “We all knew they had divisions in their party.” Hoyer’s press office sent an e-mail to reporters with the subject line: “Republicans’ Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week.”

Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad."

Repeat one hundred thousand times!

[gratuitous]

6. Oh, they were the happiest clams in the sand from November 2 right up until January 3 or 4

Then all those noobs showed up to give them a majority in the House, and the noobs thought they should have a say in running the place. Boehner and Cantor, wholly unaccustomed to running things, have found out that it's a little trickier than they thought. Last time they wre in the majority, Rove or some other Bush minion just issued the marching orders, and off they went. Now they have to come up with stuff all on their own and they got . . . nothing.

Where are the jobs, John? Eric? You know, jobs? Reading the Constitution was a nice little diversion, but what about the jobs? Yeah, you need to bully women some more, but what about jobs? And who doesn't enjoy a good round of Republican hypocrisy, from Chris Lee to trying to ram through the renewal of the USA PATRIOT act with limited debate and no amendments? But jobs guys? Anybody there?

[spanone]

8. yep, up until they actually had to DO something.