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In the end, the House vote on the debt ceiling deal wasn’t that close. With both leadership teams whipping their members in favor, it passed 269 to 161. Contrary to much of the noise heard throughout the day, it passed with more Republican than Democratic votes.
While liberal opposition to the deal was as impotent as I predicted earlier, fully 95 Democrats did vote no compared to just 66 Republicans. An equal number of Democrats (95) voted yes, joining 174 Republicans. Throughout the day, even many of the deal GOP’s opponents expressed their support for House Speaker John Boehner, making defeat seem unlikely.
The outliers in the House Republican Conference included two presidential candidates, Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann (Thaddeus McCotter voted yes), a number of Tea Party freshmen like Tim Huelskamp, Justin Amash, and Joe Walsh, and embattled RSC chairman Jim Jordan. On the Democratic side, large segments of the Congressional Black and Hispanic Caucuses voted no.
Here’s the full roll call.
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Clint| 8.1.11 @ 9:52PM
Dr.Ron Paul,
" I cannot support the reported deal on raising the nation’s debt ceiling. I have never voted to raise the debt ceiling, and I never will.
“This deal will reportedly cut spending by only slightly over $900 billion over 10 years. But we will have a $1.6 trillion deficit after this year alone, meaning those meager cuts will do nothing to solve our unsustainable spending problem. In fact, this bill will never balance the budget. Instead, it will add untold trillions of dollars to our deficit. This also assumes the cuts are real cuts and not the same old Washington smoke and mirrors game of spending less than originally projected so you can claim the difference as a ‘cut’.”
“The plan also calls for the formation of a deficit commission, which will accomplish nothing outside of providing Congress and the White House with another way to abdicate responsibility. In my many years of public service, there have been commissions on everything from Social Security to energy policy, yet not one solution has been produced out of these commissions."
You Have Been Sold Out By The RINO-CINO GOP Ruling Elite Again & Again & Again.
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here & Now.
Stand In Rebellion.
Sean| 8.1.11 @ 10:48PM
We go deeper into debt thanks to a majority of Republicans.
T. Bowgen| 8.1.11 @ 10:51PM
The Tea Party has been shown to be willing to force a default on the debt ... ignoring the fourteenth amendment ... to cause our debt rating to be downgraded, and make a wretched economic situation far worse at a time when so many Americans are suffering.
Worse than all of that, they were willing to kill any chances of the GOP taking control of Congress and winning the White House if they didn't get their way. They are like two year olds, ready to throw their food at the adults trying to feed them if they don't like what is being served.
Boehner marginalized them so thoroughly that in the end, only a handful were left. Their immature antics will be remembered by Wall Street and by the American Public.
The bottom line is that the "rinos" as some so childishly call them are seen to be the adults in the room. Wall street won't forget that. The American public won't forget that.
The Tea Partiers days are numbered.
They wont't be missed.
The Exterminator| 8.1.11 @ 11:36PM
Keep on dreaming, wishful thinker. The Republicans will not be the tax collectors for Democratic corruption. There are more battles ahead the size of government is going down. No new revenues! The party is over. You wanted GHW Bush but that was never a possibility. Man up and fight for those tax increases you want so desperately. After 2012 you won't be able to do much more than whine. We are sending Obama back to the center of his community organizing where he can enjoy the fruits of his labor.
Your analogy is really screwed up. The tax payer bought the food for which you are taking credit. In the analogy you are the Somali Warlord who tries to profit from the stolen food. This is America though and you are going to get capped for your effort. The Progressives' days are numbered. We will keep a small set around in zoos so the public can see these human parasites.
Clint| 8.2.11 @ 6:13AM
Economic Bullshit LiarMan Bowgren Attempts More Big Government Ruling Elite, " Let's Try To Fool Those Sucker Voters Once Again."
"Major ratings firms -- namely Standard & Poor's and Moody's -- have said even if the country raises the debt ceiling and doesn't default, there's a strong likelihood that the triple-A bond rating will be cut to double-A unless a budget can be crafted that results in $4 trillion in savings, the result of the massive debt load the country has accumulated in recent years. The nation's outstanding debt is more than $14 trillion.
A senior banking official told FOX Business that administration officials have provided guidance to them that even though a default is off the table, a downgrade "is a real possibility for no other reason than S&P and Moody's have to cover (themselves) since they've been speaking out on the debt cap so much."
Aaaaaand,
The Constitution Makes Clear That Congress Has The Authority, Not The President, To Borrow Money And Only Congress Can Increase The Statutory Debt Ceiling.
We Tea Party Patriots Are Taking Names & Numbers.
We Are Now In Open Rebellion Against An Economic Treasonous Government.
Stand In Rebellion.
WL| 8.1.11 @ 11:12PM
Bowgen...I just wish you knew what you don't know. I won't attack you the way you did the "Tea Partiers" because we have gone past that now. I won't call you names. I won't shout mob slogans at you...but I will sit back and watch...I'll watch this movie play out just the way we "Tea Partiers" see it...
I hope you see it soon sir...We need every single person we can get....Just do me one favor that most folks can't seem to accomplish...Long after the machine has destroyed our movement (or at least attempted to do so) and you eventually realized that the machine has fooled you...Please be honest with yourself...and let go of your emotional attachment with the crowd...
I know, I know...I'm just one of the wierdos...but please don't forget...
WL| 8.1.11 @ 11:29PM
I used to be in Bowgen's shoes. I can remember getting so DAMNED mad at the "fringe" folks who seemed to fight so damned hard at keeping the republicans from some hard fought victory in the war of attrition...20 years ago. Then we wound up here...with the GOP squandering it ALL and the Demons running everything...
They really succeeded didn't they??? That GOP really had good things going before this god awful EXTREMIST TEA PARTY SHOWED UP...
Didn't they..?....I mean...the tea party ruined EVERYTHING in 2009 didn't they???? The republicans were on there way to saving us all weren't they??? If only they could get the House, Senate, and Presidency...they could do it NEXT TIME...Oh...but they had that from 2000 to 2006 ....didn't they?
Sorry Bowgen...can't resist it...
You are a brainless rube. Dupe. The smartest brown-eye a horse has ever met. What a dip-$(#$
WL| 8.1.11 @ 11:32PM
Hey bowgen...did you wipe Boehners wrinkle-eye today?
because it won't take long for you to realize you are just toilet paper that will flushed anyway...
Do you even have a job...or investments...NO probably not...because you obviously don't know anything about economics...unless you made your money in something other than business...
I'm right ....am I not?
Bob K.| 8.2.11 @ 12:59AM
In PA every one voted Y except for 1 very liberal Philadelphia area Democrat. This is a state that went Republican big time in 2010.
Nobody is going to fall back in love with Obama in 2012 after falling out of love with him in 2o1o. It doesn't work that way.