Speaker John Boehner’s (r) joke passed in the House despite bipartisan opposition:
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 677
S 627 RECORDED VOTE 29-Jul-2011 6:25 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Budget Control Act of 2011
That’s right. No Democratic votes for it and twenty-two republican votes against it.
How the Missouri delegation voted:
—- AYES 218 —
Akin
Emerson
Graves (MO)
Hartzler
Long
Luetkemeyer— NOES 210 —
Carnahan
Clay
Cleaver
Oh, look, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (r) voted “no”.
The Twitterverse lights up like a holiday tree:
@BGinKC Blue Girl
So the House has passed a stone, er, @SpeakerBoehner’s idiotic corpse of a bill. Ho Hum and who cares? It’s dead and so is his career. 1 hour ago
@pourmecoffee pourmecoffee
Procedure now is the Senate will table Boehner’s bill and a secret committee of Freemasons will decide what to do next. 1 hour ago
Meanwhile, the Senate has to deal with the mess:
@clairecmc Claire McCaskill
We’ll obviously be working all weekend.I’m going to spend some time on my office switchboard answering calls myself. 1 hour ago
And, true to form, the republicans obstruct:
@clairecmc Claire McCaskill
Not a good sign. Someone on R side objected to us even beginning to do business. Requiring silly procedural vote. #compromise 16 minutes ago
The republicans can’t help themselves, it’s in their nature.
“Speaker John Boehner’s (r) joke passed in the House despite bipartisan opposition…”
…we called it.