schieffer: good evening, scott s off tonight. i m bob schieffer. well, republican speaker john boehner s plan to end the debt crisis in grave doubt tonight. conservatives in his own party turned against it and the vote had to be postponed. the house spent most of the afternoon debating the speaker s plan, but just a while ago when it became obvious the votes were not there to pass the measure, the vote was postponed and the house took up legislation to name post offices around the country. nancy cordes is at the capitol tonight. nancy, i don t know what to ask you now except what happens next. reporter: well, bob, this just shows the perils for either party trying to go it alone without compromising here. speaker boehner does not have any democratic support for this bill, so that means he can only afford to lose about two dozen republican house members and there are more than that tonight who are angry that his bill didn t cut deeper. just half an hour before the vote was
have come around to this legislation in the past 24, 48 hours? we ve all. reporter: democrats vowed to vote against the bill which would cut $900 billion from the budget in exchange for a short six-month extension of the debt ceiling. this is not a good bill. but the notion that it would have us having this conversation again in six months is reason enough for every member of this chamber to reject that bill. reporter: as the nation s biggest banks begged congress for compromise warning downgrade or default would raise interest rates for everyone, senate leader harry reid led the charge to blame the tea party for the impasse. we have five days remaining until a few extremist republicans and note, i say a few drive our economy off a clip because they re too radical and inexperienced to compromise. reporter: tea party members like pennsylvania s mike kelly argued they re the responsible ones forcing congress to deal with the debt. if i m a radical and an extremi
schieffer: good evening, scott s off tonight. i m bob schieffer. well, republican speaker john boehner s plan to end the debt crisis in grave doubt tonight. conservatives in his own party turned against it and the vote had to be postponed. the house spent most of the afternoon debating the speaker s plan, but just a while ago when it became obvious the votes were not there to pass the measure, the vote was postponed and the house took up legislation to name post offices around the country. nancy cordes is at the capitol tonight. nancy, i don t know what to ask you now except what happens next. reporter: well, bob, this just shows the perils for either party trying to go it alone without compromising here. speaker boehner does not have any democratic support for this bill, so that means he can only afford to lose about two dozen republican house members and there are more than that tonight who are angry that his bill didn t cut deeper. just half an hour before the vote was