House Republicans admit being anti-American, totally selfish.

House Republican concedes that GOP's interests aren't aligned with the country's (Click on this heading to read more)

Rss@dailykos.com (jed Lewison)
Thursday, February 13, 2014, 7:25 pm
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Boehner wants credit for letting Democrats do the hard work of governing.

This is an incredible statistic about Tuesday's vote in the U.S. House to raise the debt limit through March 2015:
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    The 28 members of the Republican majority who voted for the bill - a meager 12 percent - was the lowest percentage for a majority on passage since the House began publishing electronic data on votes in 1991.

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The clear implication, says Carl Hulse of The New York Times, is that the vast majority of House Republicans voted against a measure that they actually wanted to pass: The "vote no, hope yes" phenomenon. This pattern-public opposition coupled with private support-is utterly dysfunctional, says Hulse, and the amazing thing is that at least one House Republican agreed with him:
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    "The incentives are not aligned," one House Republican acknowledged in conceding that the debt limit vote was not exactly what the framers intended when they drew up the plans for how the House would operate.

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On issue after issue, what we're seeing is a House of Representatives in which the majority party is utterly incapable of governing, whether it's immigration reform or the government shutdown or turning to Democrats to save the country from default. And it's pretty clear, not just from that quote above, that Republicans-at least the somewhat smart ones-understand the dysfunction.