The Text:<\/strong> Monday, Sept. 30, 2:08 p.m. If the House GOP\u2019s Saturday night vote-a-rama had a point, it was pure PR. House Republicans were at work while Americans were watching baseball; Senate Democrats were AWOL. On Sunday, led by Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a gaggle of House Republicans had stood between the Capitol and C-SPAN cameras and hectored Majority Leader Harry Reid\u2019s Democrats for not moving the newest continuing resolution\u2014the one with the one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act. \u201cCome back and do what is required in a democracy!\u201d said Arkansas Rep. Tim Griffin. \u201cO Senate, where art thou?\u201d asked Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn.<\/p>\nThe Senate was biding time until Reid brought it back to kill the resolution. Senators filed in to table it, all 54 Democrats versus all 46 Republicans. Arizona Sen. John McCain stuck around after his vote to tell reporters, who have rekindled their affection for him, why the House GOP was careening toward death and destruction.<\/p>\n
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\u201cEighty percent of the American people don\u2019t want the government shut down,\u201d said McCain. \u201cThey don\u2019t like government\u2014they don\u2019t want it shut down! We\u2019re really making this much more complicated than it needs to be. Therefore, ergo, we\u2019re not going to repeal Obamacare! OK? That\u2019s it. We may do this for a week. We may do this for a month. It\u2019ll end up the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Howard Fineman, the longtime Washington reporter who now works for the Huffington Post, attempted to bait McCain. \u201cSome people say this is your fault because you picked Sarah Palin as a running mate,\u201d says Fineman.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything\u2019s my fault,\u201d snarks McCain. \u201cIn fact, you\u2019re one of the ones that blamed me for everything, Howard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another reporter asked if there was \u201ca scenario\u201d where the House strategy would work, and change Democrats\u2019 minds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see a scenario where pigs fly, but it\u2019s not likely.\u201d<\/p>\n
2:58 p.m. While Senate Democrats were feeding the GOP\u2019s continuing resolution through the shredder, House Republicans were meeting in their usual basement conference room, talking over next moves. The details of the new continuing resolution, \u201cPlan C,\u201d leaked immediately. Republicans would compromise by giving up on a full delay of Obamacare but asking for a one-year delay of the individual mandate and a rider that nixed health care subsidies for members of Congress and their staffers. This was popularly referred to as the \u201cVitter Amendment,\u201d because Louisiana Sen. David Vitter (who, relatedly, might run for governor of his state next year) had written it, and because up to now it had been seen as an act of political gamesmanship that was not intended to become a law. At the same time, they\u2019d pass a micro-continuing resolution that paid the military and saved everyone from the most torturous of shutdown talking points.<\/p>\n
House Republicans trickled out of the meeting, running head-first into dozens of reporters, many armed with cameras and pleading for them to \u201cstop and talk for a minute.\u201d Most of them pushed on wordlessly, only to be chased down by reporters unencumbered by cameras. \u201cThe government\u2019s been shut down 17 times in the past,\u201d said South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan, who left the room early for another meeting. \u201cThe majority of those were controlled by a Democrat Congress.\u201d His very next words: \u201cThis isn\u2019t about shutting the government down. Republicans have a plan to keep government funded but also be responsible to American voters that spoke very loudly to us that they don\u2019t like Obamacare. Obamacare is actually shutting down America.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 20 seconds, Duncan had insisted that a government shutdown wasn\u2019t a huge deal, and that of course Republicans would never be holding the smoking gun for such a devastating act. One reporter followed up with Duncan, asking why Barack Obama\u2019s election didn\u2019t prove that \u201cvoters\u201d had also spoken loudly in favor of the law.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was re-elected in 2012, too,\u201d says Duncan.<\/p>\n
3:50 p.m. The Plan C meeting ended after nearly two hours, 200-odd Republicans spilling out into the halls leading back to offices or the Capitol to be harangued by reporters. New York Rep. Peter King was glad to see them. He had spoken up in the meeting, telling fellow Republicans that he could not be a \u201cfacilitator for a disastrous process and plan.\u201d<\/p>\n
As King walked to his office, reporters were spun a fantastic tale of Republican insurrection. King had 20\u2014maybe 25\u2014like-minded moderates ready to join him and vote down the rule on the continuing resolution\u2014the vote that sets up the final vote, something that almost never fails. If King could bring down this continuing resolution, it would end the \u201cpingpong\u201d between the House and Senate and convince House Speaker John Boehner to break the glass case marked \u201cclean CR.\u201d Democrats would provide the ballast for a vote that funded the government and Obamacare\u2014and nothing extraneous\u2014while keeping the sequestration-level spending caps for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n
6:31 p.m. The King story seemed credible\u2014credible enough for Democrats, anyway. Reporters waited for the vote in the Speaker\u2019s Lobby, the hall outside the House floor where members come out to chat with them. New Jersey Rep. Rob Andrews strolled by and did his damnedest to spread the story.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re gonna lose on the rule,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re bleeding from both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n
But wasn\u2019t Andrews worried that the Vitter Amendment, with its headline-ready promise of punishing Congress in the name of \u201cfairness,\u201d would win Democratic votes? That was the theory, wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother Republican theory is that there\u2019s no global warming and the Earth is flat,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what they\u2019re thinking, but it\u2019s unconscionable to take the young men and women around here who work as hard as they do and to take away their health benefits to make some political point.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrews kept talking, slowly seeming to realize that trolling the GOP before the vote might not help his cause. \u201cI\u2019m whipping votes for their side!\u201d<\/p>\n
7:15 p.m. Maybe Andrews was whipping for the other side. The rule passed, with only six Republicans voting against it. Four of them were conservatives. King and Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent were the only holdouts who could be reasonably referred to as moderates. Erica Elliot, a spokeswoman for Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, announced the vote totals and the names to a low chorus of reporter chuckling. New York Rep. Michael Grimm, another moderate who\u2019d been whacking his party\u2019s strategy, voted for the rule. \u201cPeter King never talked to me about voting no,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
8:54 p.m. In the time lag between the rule and the final vote, members of the House milled around and plotted their next moves. \u201cPlotted\u201d may be a strong word. Oklahoma Rep. James Lankford, a red-haired and deep-voiced member of the 2010 class, held court in a corner, showing reporters what he called his \u201cserious face\u201d as he discussed how the GOP got here.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce we cross over pass midnight, it might not make a difference if we do it at 1 a.m. or if we do it at 8 a.m. tomorrow,\u201d said Lankford. \u201cOnce we cross over into the dead zone.\u201d He pauses. \u201cY\u2019all know if the president signed the military pay bill? We had some civilian folks who called our office and asked that, and we haven\u2019t heard yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Did Lankford think the GOP had gained anything, so far, by pingponging with the Senate when the White House won\u2019t negotiate at all?<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s the big issue. Can the White House continue to say over and over again, \u2018We won\u2019t negotiate with anyone? Everyone has to do it my way or no way?\u2019 How long can you say we don\u2019t have a constitutional government?\u201d<\/p>\n
Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie, a libertarian who often votes against the leadership, stood just outside the Speaker\u2019s Lobby and predicted defeat. \u201cWe\u2019re rushing toward a clean CR,\u201d he said. Was he surprised that the White House had refused to negotiate as the GOP had made smaller and smaller demands? \u201cI\u2019m not surprised,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is Pawn Stars 101. You don\u2019t come off your offer until he comes off his price! Are you gonna pay his price? If you pay once without him budging, you end up at his price.\u201d<\/p>\n
New York Rep. Steve Israel left the floor with a grin visible from several yards away. He ran the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2012, making modest gains even on a gerrymandered map, and he\u2019s been insisting that the Obamacare wars would help his party win the House in 2014. When a reporter mentioned the Peter King charge, Israel rolled his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the best you can muster is two out of six, it tells you what\u2019s happened to the moderates in the Republican Party,\u201d he said. \u201cThey live in fear of a Tea Party primary. That explains what you see every day in this place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Israel started rattling off the names of Republicans from districts where sequestration and a negative party brand could help elect Democrats. Israel is told that Republicans think the stink of a shutdown will wear off by 2014. \u201cCan you quote me as laughing?\u201d he asked. Why wouldn\u2019t voters also blame Barack Obama for a shutdown? \u201cIf I were a House Republican, I would die for President Obama\u2019s approval rating right now. If I\u2019m at 16 percent, 48 percent looks pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n
9:47 p.m. The Senate moved to table the new continuing resolution. Once again, every Democrat voted with Harry Reid. Once again, Republicans left ready to trash the House\u2019s strategy.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom my standpoint, I think the House has gotten enough advice from senators,\u201d said Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson.<\/p>\n
\u201cObamacare is not popular, but we’ve managed to find the one thing that’s less popular than Obamacare,\u201d said Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake. \u201cThat’s shutting down the government. Quite an achievement!\u201d<\/p>\n
Flake sounded baffled by the lack of strategy. \u201cThis is my first shutdown,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery 17 years, now? It\u2019s like the cicada. It takes about that long for people to find out how bad it was, and then there\u2019s that screeching sound again. A shutdown doesn\u2019t even save any money.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the last senators to leave the floor was Ted Cruz. The media horde had mostly decamped to the House, to see what Boehner would try next. The only people close to Cruz were photographers, who snapped countless shots of him waiting, alone, next to a tardy elevator.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou stand so well for photos, now!\u201d said one photographer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess I do,\u201d said Cruz.<\/p>\n
10:54 p.m. Politico\u2019s Jake Sherman broke the news on Twitter: House Republicans would try to pass another continuing resolution, one that contained basically everything from Plan C but went to the Senate with instructions for a conference committee. Democrats were legitimately baffled by this. Way back in the spring, the House Republicans had tied the hike in the debt limit to the Senate\u2019s passage of a budget. This, they said, would restore \u201cregular order,\u201d and allow the parties to meet in conference to hash out a spending plan. It never happened, largely because Senate Republicans objected\u201418 times\u2014to setting up conference. And now Republicans wanted to try to do this, or argue that they tried, less than two hours before the end of the fiscal quarter.<\/p>\n
The new-new-new-new continuing resolution went to the House Rules Committee, where Democrats, if they so chose, could eat up time asking what Republicans were even thinking. They chose to do so. Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings, a once-impeached judge who is now the best Democratic filibusterer on the committee, asked Rules Chairman Pete Sessions if he\u2019d cleared this plan with Senate Democrats.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, that’s a good question and I cannot answer it honestly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnswer it dishonestly, then!\u201d said Hastings. He lectured Sessions on how, up to this point, he\u2019d been unsure if the GOP had lost its collective mind or not. He was no longer unsure. \u201cYou have lost it.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the House committee met, Senate Democrats led by Reid and by Appropriations Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski take the floor and denounce the plan. \u201cWe will not go to conference with a gun to our head,\u201d said Reid. He wanted the House to pass the \u201cclean\u201d continuing resolution, not the one Democrats would have to perform surgery on.<\/p>\n
11:36 p.m. The House Democrats hastily scheduled a press conference to denounce the GOP for belatedly asking to go to conference, when they\u2014the Democrats\u2014had wanted such a conference for months. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the ranking member of the Budget Committee, produced paper evidence of the Democratic claim, not that anyone doubted it. A reporter from National Review asked the assembled leaders what they thought of the Vitter Amendment, which after all was still duct-taped onto the continuing resolution.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not a real issue,\u201d said Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. \u201cThe issue is whether we keep the government, on behalf of the American people, open. In my view, the people who offered that don\u2019t believe in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know what else?\u201d interjected Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. \u201cThey\u2019re fakers! They want that to not prevail, but they want us to vote for it!\u201d<\/p>\n
The press conference broke up shortly before midnight. Vermont Democratic Rep. Peter Welch, who\u2019d been standing off to the side, stared blankly at the departing crowd.<\/p>\n
\u201cWelp,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got ourselves a situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tuesday Oct. 1, 1:10 a.m. The House passed Plan D, with a smattering of Republican \u201cno\u201d votes and Democratic \u201caye\u201d votes. TV networks were already running their Special Reports on the shutdown. The leadership\u2019s press aides told reporters to head over to the press conference, where Boehner would explain the next moves. The press conference lasted for a little more than a minute. Boehner took two questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cEight hundred thousand federal employees are receiving notices that they\u2019re no longer needed on their jobs,\u201d asked NBC reporter Luke Russert. \u201cWhat\u2019s your message to them, and do you have a plan to restore back pay to them?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe House has voted to keep the government open, but we also want basic fairness for all Americans,\u201d said Boehner.<\/p>\n
The speaker turned and walked away. Peter Welch, who was \u201con the way home,\u201d had stuck around to watch Boehner\u2019s remarks. He walked out through Statuary Hall and the rotunda, a dozen or so steps behind the GOP team.<\/p>\n
\u201cShut it down!\u201d said Welch in a mock-tough voice. The Republicans headed outside to their idling black SUVs. Welch raised his finger to the ceiling, as if making a grand speech. \u201cShut this sucker down!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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