GOP going for another Shutdown.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/23/politics/government-shutdown-john-boehner-democrats/index.html

Apparently the House is trying to pass the spending bill but want federal funding for Planned Parenthood cut out. However, the House Speaker, John Boehner is trying to avoid this. Dems don't really give a shit enough to help him out, probably laughing the GOP is about to shutdown the government again and this time during a major election year.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Does the GOP realize that the shutdown made everybody hate them for the next year or so

 

[chimpburgers]

They never seem to learn.

 

[Dudeofteenage]

The last shutdown didn't really make anybody look good. I guess the GOP's calculation is that more dirt will stick to the Dems than to them. Possibly so, but given that whoever ends up running for the Dems in 2016 won't be involved, it seems counterproductive.

 

[Lefty's Revenge]

Does the GOP realize that the shutdown made everybody hate them for the next year or so

I don't think they even care anymore.

 

[AnOminous]

I don't think they even care anymore.

Why would they? At least in the House, the vast majority of districts are so completely gerrymandered that the outcome of any random race is basically predetermined. The only election that matters is their party's primary, and so long as the crazies are happy, they don't have to worry about anything.

 

[VLAD]

Looks like we're in the clear for now.

The federal government will stay open for at least another two months after the House and Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to avert a shutdown, which would otherwise have begun at midnight.

The Senate passed a continuing resolution to extend funding through December 11 by a vote of 78-20, and the House signed off on the bill around 5 p.m. with a 277-151 vote. In both chambers, the only opposing votes were Republicans who wanted the stop-gap bill to explicitly defund Planned Parenthood.

The drama of the shutdown fight largely ended when Speaker John Boehnerannounced his resignation last Friday. Conservatives had threatened to try to oust Boehner if he did not make an all-out bid to strip taxpayer money from Planned Parenthood, and the speaker chose to quit rather than wage another battle that he believed the party would have lost. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who is next in line to replace Boehner, voted for the spending bill on Wednesday.

Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are now negotiating with the White House on a budget deal that would set spending limits for the 2016 fiscal year that began on Thursday. If they cannot reach an agreement, another temporary measure would be required to avoid a government shutdown in December.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Does the GOP realize that the shutdown made everybody hate them for the next year or so

Apparently not.

At this point, they may as well cut their losses and dissolve.

 

[Trombonista]

Cruz's reaction to Boehner's resignation makes me hope his campaign crashes and burns by the end of the year.

I didn't like Boehner either, but you don't celebrate a coworker's resignation just because they didn't agree with you on every single issue.