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Post by confuzzled dude Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:57 am

The collapse of a three-week extension of funding to keep the Department of Homeland Security -- a measure seen as a last-ditch attempt by Republican leaders to avoid a shutdown -- affirmed, yet again, that House Speaker John A. Boehner has little ability to bend his conference to his will. (The one-week extension that passed the chamber late Friday night will prevent a shutdown. But don't mistake it as any sort of consolation for Boehner.)

The vote totals for the three-week extension tell the story.  Fifty-two Republicans bucked Boehner to oppose the measure, joining 172 Democrats who did the same. By contrast, only 12 Democrats voted in the affirmative and against the wishes of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
That logic seemed lost on the most conservative elements -- as it has been time and again over the past three-plus years. From the collapse of the "Plan B" proposal to avoid the fiscal cliff to the Farm Bill failure to Friday's vote, the story is always the same: Boehner proposes legislation to prevent Republicans from taking the lion's share of blame in whatever the latest moment of brinkmanship is between Congress and the White House. Conservatives refuse to sign on. Republicans are eventually forced to accept something that is less advantageous for their side than the Boehner proposal. Lather, rinse, repeat.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/02/27/congressional-republicans-are-their-own-worst-enemies-by-a-lot/?hpid=z1

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