A Pelosi bailout?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Such a healthy majority and yet, Boehner needs Nancy Pelosi to be able to govern.

House GOP’s deal to keep government open may fall apart without Democratic votes.

The government will shut down in just eight days unless Congress acts, and Republican lawmakers and aides in and around leadership fear their two-step government-funding plan cannot pass without help — from Nancy Pelosi.

At the beginning of the day, GOP leadership thought they had it all figured out. They’d give conservatives a separate bill to direct their anger at President Barack Obama over his executive action on immigration, then vote separately to fund most of the government for a year.

But as key leadership aides and lawmakers circled the House floor Tuesday afternoon, they encountered unexpected “headwinds,” several sources said. Hardline conservatives who have caused problems for leaders for years were not falling in line. These conservatives estimate their ranks are 30 to 40, enough to derail a vote.

That swelling Republican opposition gives Pelosi and her down-in-the-dumps House Democrats some unexpected power: the ability to rescue Boehner’s Republican Conference as Democrats have again and again in the big fights of the past three years.

So after a big election victory this fall in which Republicans took the Senate and strengthened their grip on the House, instead of Republicans uniting around their own leadership’s plan, they are about to risk giving more control to Pelosi’s shrinking Democratic Caucus. It makes Boehner allies cringe.

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[Karee 4,189]

Such a healthy majority and yet, Boehner needs Nancy Pelosi to be able to govern.

Two parties find some common ground on something, and you think it's funny. Figures. Seems all you care about is the Democrat party, and not the future of the country.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Two parties find some common ground on something, and you think it's funny. Figures. Seems all you care about is the Democrat party, and not the future of the country.

You haven't read the story. But thanks for playing.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Two parties find some common ground on something, and you think it's funny. Figures. Seems all you care about is the Democrat party, and not the future of the country.

Common ground? You mean minus the 30 or 40 still stopping them from reaching a common ground?