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Charlie Dent to NYT: We don't have 218 votes to determine a bathroom break
With the failed attempt to hold hostage funding for the Department of Homeland Security over President Obama's immigration policies still a open sore, the Republican Party has many other difficult votes on its horizon, the New York Times reports.
And U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent doesn't see the effort getting any easier even through his party has its largest majority in years, he tells the newspaper.
"We really don't have 218 votes to determine a bathroom break over here on our side," Dent, R-Northampton-Lehigh, told the Times. "So how are we going to get 218 votes on transportation, or trade, or whatever the issue? We might as well face the political reality of our circumstances and then act accordingly."
At least one Republican Congressman thinks things need to change. We can only hope that we will see more rational behaviour in the coming months
At least one Republican Congressman thinks things need to change. We can only hope that we will see more rational behaviour in the coming months
Who needs votes?
Obama passes what he wants to pass without Congress. He is king.
No he doesnt.
And we know tis makes you sad.
The GOP is broken, they've been broken for awhile. But until they start to take some serious beatings at the state and local elections, nothing will change.
So youre saying Dems are obstructionist?
Apparently you slept through the mid-terms.
Not that they're taking advantage of the ass-whooping they delivered in November.
1st off it was no where near an 'ass whooping'. But the GOP did win, and that was my point. They need a wake-up call. Until they start to take some serious beatings in the state and local elections nothing will change, they'll continue to be broken.
Agreed.
Congress needs to pay the bills and stop abdicating their Constitutional responsibility to do so by turning everything into an un-winnable proxy war against presidential policies, no matter how ill fated or constitutionally questionable those policies may be.
Isnt checking the Presidency exactly what congress is supposed to do? How can they do that without passing a law which says he cant do what he wants to do? It sounds like youre saying they should just give the President whatever he wants.
What most people would like to see is some rational behaviour on the part of the GOPers. You know, act like grownups and not 5 year old spoiled brats. Stop the automatic NO! and negotiate.
Isnt saying we'll give you everything you want in funding DHS, except this one tiny thing, negotiating? WHat was the Presidents offer? "Give me everything I want?" Where was his negotiating? Why should congress have to negotiate with the President over something he isnt supposed to be doing in the first place?
You call destroying the lives of 4 million people, "one tiny thing"?
If they dont like our laws, they can leave.
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