And they can't kick Ted Cruz around over this: Congress headed for potential shutdown as GOP admits spending bills stalled - Granite Grok

And they can’t kick Ted Cruz around over this: Congress headed for potential shutdown as GOP admits spending bills stalled

CongressYup.  The Republican Leadership really has but one job to do – pass the bills that fund and direct spending of the Federal Government.  Not even this can they do right, it seems.  One job to do – and with majorities in both parts of Congress, what’s their excuse (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

Congress won’t get its spending bills done in time for the new fiscal year,House Speaker John A. Boehner said Thursday, saying they’ll need to pass a short-term stopgap to prevent a government shutdown. It marked a grim admission from GOP leaders who, after winning control of the Senate in last year’s elections, had promised to do better at writing the dozen annual spending bills that keep the basic operations of government running year to year.

And passing a “continuing resolution,” or “CR” in Capitol-speak, might not be particularly easy either.

Mr. Boehner said the cramped schedule forced his hand. The House is slated to be on vacation all of August and the first week in September, leaving only a few weeks before the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year.  “It’s pretty clear, given the number of days we’re going to be here in September, that we’re going to have to do a CR of some sort,” Mr. Boehner told reporters.

Oh, of COURSE – The Schedule.  Umm, doesn’t the Majority Party SET THE SCHEDULE?  Change it – you have the power.  What is more important: doing your job or being disliked (this time by the other House Republicans) which might mean you lose the Speakership job?  The country or you: you will pick one but which will it be?

Yet another excuse from the Party of Stupid (and bordering, from my standpoint in the base, Useless)

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