Simply to pass the CRomnibus so that these R wusses wouldn’t get a drop of political mud on themselves – and spitting in the faces of voters that just gave them the biggest R majorities since Prez Hoover. From The Corner (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Retiring Representative Jim Moran (D., Va.) said that Democrats got “virtually everything” they wanted in the cromnibus package, as he praised the bill in terms that could double as the conservative critique of the legislation. Moran said that “the Republicans are indicating they need 80 Democrats” and he’s frustrated that Democrats won’t provide the votes.
Right – the House doesn’t have to wait until January to have a Republican majority to pass a good bill. It is ONLY because so many Conservative CongressCritters see this as an abject caving into the Democrat agenda simply to “get things done” that Boehner needs the Democrats. That in itself says much – and how bad this is. Look, if MORAN IS PRAISING this crap load waste of paper (which was released to late to really understand what’s in those 1,000 plus pages). And Boehner doesn’t understand why he has to be groveling for votes (and what is THAT gonna cost us in real taxmonies afterwards with this dealmaking?).
“In 20 years of being on the appropriations [committee], I haven’t seen a better compromise in terms of Democratic priorities. Implementing the Affordable Care Act, there’s a lot more money for early childhood development — the only priority that got cut was the EPA but we gave them more money than the administration asked for,” Moran told reporters Thursday evening after exiting a Democratic caucus meeting in which White House chief of staff Denis McDonough tried to convince members to back the bill. “There were 26 riders that were extreme and would have devastated the Environmental Protection Agency in terms of the Clean Water and Clean Air Act administration; all of those were dropped,” Moran continued. ”There were only two that were kept and they wouldn’t have been implemented this fiscal year. So, we got virtually everything that the Democrats tried to get.”
Weakness – why are the DC Repubs always willing to throw their “on our knees” card?
