Conservatives Almost Tricked into Passing Their Own Budget
The House of Representatives descended into chaos Friday as Republicans who wanted to pass the really really conservative 2012 budget unveiled by Rep. Paul Ryan almost passed the really really really conservative one authored by the Republican Study Committee because of a trick played on them by Democrats.
Upon realized that more Republicans were voting for the amendment than against it, the Dems changed their votes from ‘nay’ to ‘present.’ The Republicans realized their budget might pass and scrambled to change their own votes.
Elspeth Reeve from the Atlantic Wire says it best:
The Democratic gambit was a stunt, for sure, but it had the desired effect of revealing the Republican Study Committee budget proposal as a stunt itself.
