Told ya so...

The Hill:

The House rejected a bill Tuesday aimed at repealing a slew of light bulb efficiency standards that conservatives have targeted as an egregious example of federal overreach.

The Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act, sponsored by Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), failed on a 233-193 vote, with a two-thirds majority needed for passage.

A suspend-the-rules vote guaranteed to fail...?

The vote fell mostly along party lines, but five Democrats voted in favor of the bill and 10 Republicans voted against the bill.  One Republican voted "present.”

The list:
DrewM.:

Seriously, if the GOP can't get this stuff right, the hopes of getting something as gigantic as the debt ceiling even remotely right is depressingly low.

That’s assuming the Republicans actually wanted to pass it, which IMO would be a pretty big assumption nowadays.

Elsewhere:

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