It’s official: the Republican Party is going to push the country over the fiscal cliff: House: No Votes Tonight.

Awaiting action by the Senate, the leader of the House of Representatives have announced they will stage no votes this evening, ensuring the nation will go over the fiscal cliff for at least a day.

According to my careful analysis, Texas Rep. Louie “Terror Babies” Gohmert is the Dumbest Person in Congress, and he proves it again with this crazy rant accusing President Obama of “jump-starting a new Ottoman Empire.”

It’s doubtful that Gohmert actually knows anything about the Ottoman Empire, except that it somehow involves Muslims, which makes it scary and bad.

This man is an idiotRep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) took to the House Floor today to declare that President Obama is helping to start a “new Ottoman Empire,” as seen in his decisions to end the war in Iraq, which Gohmert said means losing the war, and to topple Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship in Libya. Gohmert warned that we are witnessing the “massive beginning of a new Ottoman Empire that President Obama can take great credit for.” “Wow look what he has helped do in the Middle East, a new Ottoman Empire,” Gohmert said, “thank you President Barack Hussein Obama.” Gohmert added that he didn’t know if Obama is or is not a Christian, adding, “what I do know is that he has helped jump-start a new Ottoman Empire.”

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The Tea Party contingent in the House of Representatives gave John Boehner another public spanking today: Vote shows Boehner’s lack of control.

House Republicans tried a fresh strategy Wednesday night: Go it alone on a spending bill.

The result was an embarrassing setback.

Wednesday night’s rank-and-file rebuke of GOP leadership — with 48 Republicans bolting on a temporary spending bill — underscored the fact that the House Republican majority is still struggling to find unity on major spending bills. It also showed they still need Democratic votes to help them govern.

The pressure from an angry Speaker John Boehner didn’t work — he even threatened to strip committee assignments. Four dozen Republicans —mostly conservatives — wanted more cuts, and they just said no, creating an uncomfortable scene on the House floor as the funding bill failed on a 195-230 vote. Democrats showed a rare moment of unity in overwhelmingly opposing the continuing resolution, which would keep the government funded through Nov. 18.

Now, to prevent a government shutdown, Republicans will have to rewrite the bill and figure out how to get the votes.

The Tea Party honeymoon is over for John Boehner.

“You look like a fool,” Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips wrote in a post on the group’s website, directing his message at the Ohio Republican. “Charlie Sheen is now making more sense than John Boehner.”

Boehner “did not get the message” from the tea party movement demanding big cuts to federal spending, Phillips said, and “the honeymoon is over.” The movement should respond, he said, by finding “a candidate to run against John Boehner in 2012 and should set as a goal, to defeat in a primary, the sitting Speaker of the House of Representatives.”

Judson Phillips is a full-on crank, in the grand Tea Party tradition; he was previously seen at LGF when he defended bringing loaded weapons to political events.

The Republican Party is riding the teabag tiger, and starting to lose their grip.

A perfectly symbolic incident today in the House of Representatives, as the Republicans’ cheap stunt of reading the Constitution is interrupted by one of the people for whom they’re staging the stunt — a fanatic Birther: Birther Interrupts House Reading Of Constitution, Yells ‘Help Us Jesus’.

For one of their first acts, Republicans are going to read the entire Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives. Now, I have nothing but respect for the US Constitution, as anyone who’s read my blog surely knows.

But come on. This is a cheap stunt for the Tea Party base, and it achieves nothing except to serve as an excellent indicator of how the GOP House is going to operate. Time-wasting nonsense will reign.

Rush Limbaugh, as usual, takes the rhetoric right to where the base lives, complaining about being accused of fetishizing the Constitution even as he compares reading it to an “exorcism.” (And a lot of his listeners will take this quite literally, because they also believe in exorcism.)

To no one’s surprise, John Boehner has been elected Speaker of the House by the incoming Tea Party GOP, and he’s fighting back tears as he makes his way to the podium for his first speech…

Will he break down sobbing? Developing…

Just in: House Democrats have re-elected Nancy Pelosi as their leader.

After a closed-door vote, House Democrats have re-elected Nancy Pelosi as their leader for the next Congress. The vote ended at 150-43.

Stephen Colbert really pissed off the Republicans on Capitol Hill today. I can’t recall the last time I saw so many scowling old men.

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) has reportedly been charged with ethics violations by a House investigative committee, but there are no details yet on the charges.