Why did Speaker Bonener abort Plan-B?

Too many deadbeat daddies in his own party refusing to take responsibility for his baby.

Even if the House approved the compromise, which might have been possible with some arm-twisting, Harry Reid was not going to allow a Senate vote. So the entire issue was DOA. Obama and Reid both recognized that the impartial and unbiased press would report that the republicans refused the compromise, rather than Reid blocking the Senate vote.

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Because not only did he know Obama would veto it and the Senate wouldn't even vote on it, the Tea Party members of his coalition let him know that they will not approve of any bill that raises taxes. Which means we are going off the cliff and will have to see what happens next. As long as the Tea Party continues to live in its imaginary world where everything can be fixed by starving the poor and elderly, nothing is going to get fixed.

Because "plan B" is Nasty Pelosi's Plan A from a few years ago. It was a bad idea then, it is a bad idea now.

It is the house of Rep's job to WRITE tax law. It is the senate and President's job to approve it.

IF the Senators or the President wanted to WRITE tax law, perhaps they should have ran for Congressman.

Because he couldn't get the votes to pass it.

The REAL question is why did he try that ploy, that had NO chance at all of becoming law.

Plan B was never meant to pass... it was an infantile attempt to place blame on democrats who he knew would veto it... what he didn't expect was his own party not agreeing either.

There was no way it would pass. The president promised to veto it, and Harry Reid wouldn't let it pass the senate.

Maybe because his constituents did not desire an **** slamming designed by Nancy Pelosi? It was her idea first after all....

Especially with no Vaseline to ease the slam.

he did not have the votes in his caucus - most suspect because of hyper conservatives but there may have been a lot of discenting moderates as well

he is in disarray

The Tea Party members would NOT support it.