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Charlie Dent to NYT: We don't have 218 votes to determine a bathroom break

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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

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."
 
To reauthorize Federal support for passenger rail programs and for other purposes - 318 YEAS
Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act - 405 YEAS
Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act - 357 YEAYS

Seems like the guy is full of it. 145 bills have already passed one chamber. 99% of them in the House. The problem is the Senate.

Oh wait the Senate passed A resolution designating March 3, 2015, as "World Wildlife Day".
 
Who needs votes?

Obama passes what he wants to pass without Congress. He is king.
 
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

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.
 
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.
 
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.

Apparently you slept through the mid-terms.

Not that they're taking advantage of the ass-whooping they delivered in November.
 
So youre saying Dems are obstructionist?

yes, that is the political reality the GOP has to deal with over the coming 2 years...no doubt about it.

all that talk before the mid-tertms about wanting Congress to work together was largely bull****
 
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.
 
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.

And what will this wake up call sound like? Let me guess: you want them to agree with liberals
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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"?
 
You call destroying the lives of 4 million people, "one tiny thing"?

Those lives chose to come here. If they dont like our laws, they can leave. I call respecting the law one BIG thing. I notice you didnt answer the question though. What has Obama ever given up?
 
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