UPDATE: MOD REPUBLICANS LOSE – CNN says moderate Republicans revolting with Democrats to stop Boehner plan…

UPDATE: By a vote of 225 to 204 the procedural rule passes and the Peter King faction of the Republican Party lose.

UPDATE 2: Well this was a mixed bag. The 6 GOP’ers to vote with Democrats were Michelle Bachmann, Louie Gohmert, Paul Broun, Peter King, Charlie Dent, and Steve King.

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The Peter King wing of the House Republicans are revolting with Democrats to stop Boehner’s current plan that includes calling for a delay of the individual mandate in Obamacare.

Below is the transcript from Dana Bash that occurred a few moments ago:

I’ve spoken to some moderate House Republicans who are working as we speak to stage what effectively would be a revolt, to try to stop their own party from passing their plans. Why? Because these moderate Republicans say they’ve had enough. They don’t think it is the appropriate course to be passing yet another spending bill that they believe the Senate is simply going to reject which would ultimately end up in a government shutdown.

So as we speak Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, moderate, Peter King of New York – they are working the phones, others as well – Michael Grimm of New York – trying to get enough votes to stop this on a procedural vote. Wolf, that procedural vote is going to happen within this hour and we’ll see if they can do that.

Just looking at the math of the Republican caucus, they probably would need in the ballpark about 20 Republicans to go against their leadership and more importantly, to go agains the Conservative base who definitely would wage political war against them for doing this.

What they would do is these Republicans would join Democrats in opposing the procedural vote which would effectively stop House Republicans from bringing their plan up for a vote. This procedural vote has to happen first. It’s called the rule that sets the terms fo the debate on the House floor. If that doesn’t pass then they will not be able to bring up this plan.

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