Today, via Twitter:
@RepHartzler Rep. Vicky Hartzler
The Pres. is asking to raise the debt ceiling again. As he said in 2006, “the fact that we are here today..is a sign of leadership failure.” 4 hours ago
Uh, that’s because the republican leadership in the House couldn’t get their teabagger freshmen on board two months ago.
January 13, 2012 11:25 AM
Boehner’s once bitten, twice shy….From the perspective of House GOP leaders, Boehner took orders from the right-wing contingency in December, and the result was a fiasco in which Republicans were pushing for a middle-class tax increase a few days before Christmas. The Speaker could pursue a replay, but he seems to realize there’s not much of an upside for his party. Why suffer through the same easily-avoided debacle twice?….
What, they’re not going [to] let the really insane people run the asylum?