So the House leadership is trying to blame the Senate for not staying in session to debate the bill that the Senate passed and the House voted down.
Doesn't seem to be working so far; even venues like the
WSJ are blaming this on the House Republicans.
There's a real narrative developing here: the Democrats bend over backwards to compromise, and the Tea Partiers say it's not good enough.
I'm rather not a fan of all that bending over, backwards or otherwise, but politically I think if this keeps up it's going to go a lot worse for the Tea Party than the Democrats.
Boehner comes off looking like he has no fucking control over his caucus yet again; I think it's frankly a little insulting (even by their standards) that the Republicans keep expecting people not to notice how he keeps going from praising bills to condemning them as soon as his party rejects them.