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Calling him out by name, calling again for an up or down vote on a clean budget. today, speaker at the headquarters of fema, the president challenged speaker boehner again to hold a vote! vote on it. straight up budget bill to end the government shutdown. truth of the matter is there are enough republican and democratic votes in the house of representatives right now to end the shutdown. immediately with no partisan strings attached. the house should hold the vote today. if republicans and speaker boehner are saying there are not enough votes. then they should prove it. let the bill go to the floor. let s see what happens. just vote just vote. prove it. the reason the president keeps asking republicans to just hold a vote on the budget, a budget that aims to just be a budget and not legislation defunding health reform or something, the reason the president wants the house to vote on a clean budget is math. very easy math. there are 232 republicans in the house. they are the majorit ....
Asking john boehner to schedule a vote. we know. they would sign their names. 195 votes to start with, just from democrats for a clean budget. need 217. start at 195. so, we re going to count this up for the speaker in case it is helpful. start with 195. we have 195 democratic votes. a bunch of republicans in the past few days would vote with the democrats to end the shutdown and pass a clean budget. starting with 195. let s add representative pat meehan. he put out a statement saying it was time for the house to vote for a clean, short-term funding bill. that gets us to 196. very civil congressman, scott rigell tweeted. time for a clean cr. that s 197. new jersey, john runyan supports that as well. congressman, mike fitzpatrick. said, kwoeft, i was sent to washington to solve problems, ....
This is not to take away from the great news, for the parents of the 126 infants and toddlers and preschoolers whose parents who work at mit and will matter to david koch when me meets them. if your parents don t work at mit. david koch and his brother have a different message. fund it at ten times the amount. on saturday the day after the david koch puff piece in the boston globe, north carolina congressman, mark meadows talked to his hometown press. they started asking him about a starring role. congressman meadows acknowledged demanding the shutdown. push for the defending of obama care or shut you in the government if it didn t happen. then he said do i ever want to be blamed for a shutdown? the answer is no. for me i picture every single person that could potentially be affected. he said it just breaks my heart. every story i get of adverse impact from the shutdown just ....
Conservative organizations demanding a shutdown? would the civil war inside the republican party have peatered out by now in a way less harmful to the country if koch brothers funding were not propping up all these conservative organizations that are rung the ads and demanding the ideological purity and telling republican members of congress they cannot bend, cannot woos out, they cannot compromise or else there will be hell to pay. who knows what mess the republican party would have gotten itself into by now if it were not for the well funded conservative infrastructure fueling the fight that has ensnared the country. but that is where we are right now. with the even worse shutdown prospect of the debt ceiling looming in the next ten days. the boston globe on friday, the middle of all this, publish aid nice little puff piece on david koch. the occasion was the opening of a new child care center for people who work at mit, at the massachusetts institute of technology, in cambridge, m ....
Tears at my heart. but do i want to be blamed for a shutdown president? answer is no. so david koch has the ate tear in his eye for families without child care, specific families without child care. mark meadows, the congressman who demanded the shutdown from john boehner said the is pact breaks his hard. breaks his hard. but he does not want to be blamed. you go ahead and ask santa for that and see what you get under the tree. i am not so sure that works everywhere in the country. make it works for us at home. joining us the washington bureau chief for the huffington post. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. let me put the same question to you. is the strategy not mark meadows strategy, the strategy more broadly to try to escape blame for the shutdown, while continuing to, to ensure that it keeps going on? well, i think you have to be careful using the word strategy in relation to what republicans are doing right here. ....