American Majority Action, the conservative group that’s leading the charge against House Speaker John Boehner continuing in his current position, said Monday evening that Boehner doesn’t have at least 50 percent of his House GOP members’ support for the fiscal cliff deal that Senate leaders and the White House have reportedly cut.

The deal, between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden, reportedly raises spending and hikes taxes on all Americans making more than $450,000. According to AMA, it raises spending by delaying sequester budget cuts.

In an email to reporters late Monday, AMA spokesman Ron Meyer said he’s “heard directly from senior GOP conservative members in the House that Speaker Boehner does not have a majority of support from the GOP caucus--not even close.”

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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/...eitbart+Feed%29

Regardless of what happens, the republicans will take the fall and be blamed for all of it.
Obama has the media at his beck and call and he'll be sure to use it.

I really wish these people were smart and tough enough to call this whole thing what it really is, just another fake crisis, and just walk away.

In my dreams, I guess.

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Regardless of what happens, the republicans will take the fall and be blamed for all of it.
Obama has the media at his beck and call and he'll be sure to use it.

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I really wish these people were smart and tough enough to call this whole thing what it really is, just another fake crisis, and just walk away.

In my dreams, I guess.

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Boehner can't get a majority? Is it any wonder? From Lars Larson: According to the Congressional Budget Office, the last-minute fiscal cliff deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama cuts only $15 billion in spending while increasing tax revenues by $620 billion—a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts.

Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) has about 100 Republican members he can count on if and when the Senate-passed "fiscal-cliff" bill hits the House floor, according to an analysis by The Hill...

To assess party loyalty, The Hill analyzed five controversial bills on fiscal matters that sparked outcry from factions on the right and significant defections from House GOP members: a March 15, 2011 stopgap funding bill; an April 14, 2011 bill that averted a government shutdown; an Aug. 1 roll call on the Budget Control Act; a Nov. 17, 2011 "minibus" appropriations measure; and a Feb. 17, 2012 vote to extend the payroll tax holiday. Republican defections ranged from 54 to 101 on these bills.

Despite the GOP infighting, 92 House Republicans didn't buck leadership on any of those measures.


A complete list of these sellouts can be found at the link. Is your Congressman among them? Sad to say mine is.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/275087...on-fiscal-cliff

My MIL has been here for the past several days. I was stuck watching CNN with her, because she won't watch FOXNews or any other channel. The coverage of everything leading up to the vote was barf-worthy. The pundits were saying things like, "All Harry Reid is trying to do is save our Democracy." "If only Boehner would get his House in order, none of this would have been necessary." "The American people want to get on with the people's business and get moving ahead with the president." "Blah, blah, blah."

I tuned most of it out because I knew that none of what I was hearing was truthful.

When Claire Mc Caskill was on television I had to refrain from laughing out loud. The stuff that woman gets away with saying is comical. CNN sent out the dumbest reporter to talk the senator and the reporter asked her about the "grueling, two hour meeting". Poor thing! The senator had to sit in a meeting for two hours!