He blames her for the House GOP farm bill-which included more senseless cuts to food stamps.
"House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Thursday blamed the failure of the GOP's farm bill on Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/cantor-blames-pelosi-for-farm-bill-failure?ref=fpb
He conveniently leaves out the fact that 62 GOPers didn't vote for Boehner's bill either. I guess Pelosi should guarantee that the Dems vote for something they don't believe in. Meanwhile, Maryland's Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen turns it around on Cantor: if she had been speaker the bill would have passed.
"After House Republicans failed to pass their own farm bill Thursday, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) criticized the GOP leadership and said that if Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) were speaker this "never would have happened."
"Van Hollen was speaking at a joint press conference with Pelosi, claiming the Democratic speaker knew how to lead."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/van-hollen-on-farm-bill-if-pelosi-were
Pelosi herself had recently suggested that if Boehner were a woman he would be seen for what he is: the weakest House Speaker ever. If you measure strength as the ability to get things done and weakness as an inability to do so, then both Van Hollen and Pelosi are surely right.
Meanwhile, I'll give Pelosi the last word on this:
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) slammed Republicans after the chamber voted down their farm bill on Thursday afternoon, calling it "major amateur hour."
"It's silly. It's sad. It's juvenile. It's unprofessional. It's amateur hour," she told reporters.
She chastized GOP leaders for blaming the bill's failure on a lack of Democratic votes, denying their claims that she had promised 40 votes from her conference.
"Absolutely not," she said.
She said the farm bill's cuts to food and nutrition programs would have "taken food out of the mouths of babies."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/pelosi-gops-farm-bill-failure-is-amateur-hour
What's really becoming the story here is that Boehner really is very weak-or at the very least he can't get anything done. If he hopes to actually pass anything going forward he'll actually need Pelosi's support. Biting the hand of she who you need to feed you is yet another strange GOP strategy-though it always is strange these days.
"In another embarrassment for House Speaker John Boehner, the farm bill went down to a surprise defeat in the House this afternoon, 195-234. Most Democrats voted against it, because of its deep cuts to food stamps, but what really sealed its fate is that in spite of those cuts, 62 Republicans voted against it, too, apparently because it didn’t cut spending enough."
"The leadership of the House GOP — which, last time I checked, controls the Lower Chamber – is blaming Democrats for failing to deliver enough votes to make passage possible. A spokesman for Eric Cantor claimed it shows Dems “are not able to govern.” Jed Lewison has a good post demonstrating how absurd this is:
“This underscores that Boehner cannot pass bills on his own,” Congressional scholar Norman Ornstein told me in a quick interview today. “He can’t do anything with only Republicans. The real power center in the House is not Boehner. It’s not Cantor. It’s not Ryan. It’s not McCarthy. It’s the extreme right. This shows the real dilemma ahead for a Speaker who is very weak and very conscious of his weakness within the party.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/06/20/farm-bill-debacle-shows-john-boehner-needs-nancy-pelosi/
Yet, this by default makes Pelos the real power center-does it not? Boehner outdid himself the other day in claiming with a straight face after he and the GOP House passed that miserable anti abortion bill.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/06/house-vote-twenty-week-abortion-ban.php
In a way, though, it might make sense. Boehner perhaps hoped that this absurd vote would get him some Tea Party support. It didn't and again we get the spectre of our Little House Speaker Who Can't.
"House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Thursday blamed the failure of the GOP's farm bill on Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
"I'm extremely disappointed that Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leadership have at the last minute chosen to derail years of bipartisan work on the Farm Bill and related reforms. This bill was far from perfect, but the only way to achieve meaningful reform, such as Congressman Southerland's amendment reforming the food stamp program, was in conference."The Republican legislation, which contained cuts to food and nutrition program that Democrats opposed, failed 234-195 in the House earlier in the day."
"I strongly supported the Southerland amendment which built on successful welfare reforms that have worked in the past to give states more flexibility and encourage self-sufficiency by increasing workforce participation among those enrolled in the SNAP program. I commend Chairman Frank Lucas and the House Agriculture Committee for their efforts, and am sorry that Democrats shamefully chose politics over progress and meaningful reform."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/cantor-blames-pelosi-for-farm-bill-failure?ref=fpb
He conveniently leaves out the fact that 62 GOPers didn't vote for Boehner's bill either. I guess Pelosi should guarantee that the Dems vote for something they don't believe in. Meanwhile, Maryland's Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen turns it around on Cantor: if she had been speaker the bill would have passed.
"After House Republicans failed to pass their own farm bill Thursday, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) criticized the GOP leadership and said that if Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) were speaker this "never would have happened."
"Van Hollen was speaking at a joint press conference with Pelosi, claiming the Democratic speaker knew how to lead."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/van-hollen-on-farm-bill-if-pelosi-were
Pelosi herself had recently suggested that if Boehner were a woman he would be seen for what he is: the weakest House Speaker ever. If you measure strength as the ability to get things done and weakness as an inability to do so, then both Van Hollen and Pelosi are surely right.
Meanwhile, I'll give Pelosi the last word on this:
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) slammed Republicans after the chamber voted down their farm bill on Thursday afternoon, calling it "major amateur hour."
"It's silly. It's sad. It's juvenile. It's unprofessional. It's amateur hour," she told reporters.
She chastized GOP leaders for blaming the bill's failure on a lack of Democratic votes, denying their claims that she had promised 40 votes from her conference.
"Absolutely not," she said.
She said the farm bill's cuts to food and nutrition programs would have "taken food out of the mouths of babies."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/pelosi-gops-farm-bill-failure-is-amateur-hour
What's really becoming the story here is that Boehner really is very weak-or at the very least he can't get anything done. If he hopes to actually pass anything going forward he'll actually need Pelosi's support. Biting the hand of she who you need to feed you is yet another strange GOP strategy-though it always is strange these days.
"In another embarrassment for House Speaker John Boehner, the farm bill went down to a surprise defeat in the House this afternoon, 195-234. Most Democrats voted against it, because of its deep cuts to food stamps, but what really sealed its fate is that in spite of those cuts, 62 Republicans voted against it, too, apparently because it didn’t cut spending enough."
"The leadership of the House GOP — which, last time I checked, controls the Lower Chamber – is blaming Democrats for failing to deliver enough votes to make passage possible. A spokesman for Eric Cantor claimed it shows Dems “are not able to govern.” Jed Lewison has a good post demonstrating how absurd this is:
First, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi made it clear earlier this week that Democrats weren’t going to provide the winning margin. Second, if Republicans insist on doing things like trying to cut $20 billion from food assistance programs, they really shouldn’t be shocked when Democrats don’t enthusiastically jump on board."I’d add, however, that this is useful in a perverse way, as a reminder of the degree to which the House GOP leadership needs Democrats to get things done, given its inability to count on the support of House conservatives. And this has implications for the immigration debate, too."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/06/20/farm-bill-debacle-shows-john-boehner-needs-nancy-pelosi/
Yet, this by default makes Pelos the real power center-does it not? Boehner outdid himself the other day in claiming with a straight face after he and the GOP House passed that miserable anti abortion bill.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/06/house-vote-twenty-week-abortion-ban.php
In a way, though, it might make sense. Boehner perhaps hoped that this absurd vote would get him some Tea Party support. It didn't and again we get the spectre of our Little House Speaker Who Can't.
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