What is sure to be one of the lead stories on tonight's news is summed up nicely in this headline from the San Francisco Examiner:
Democrats revolt in Pelosi effort to adjourn the House
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had to stop a revolt from her own caucus this afternoon, when 39 Democrats sided with the GOP in an effort to block the House from adjourning until mid-November.
The more than three dozen Democrats were opposed to the House quitting until they took a pre-election vote on extending the Bush-era tax cuts.
House Dems eke out adjournment vote
Thirty-nine Democrats - most of them facing difficult re-election races - broke with their party to vote against adjournment, signaling the party’s division over whether tax cuts on both the middle class and the nation’s top earners should be allowed to expire.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, gave a fiery speech on the floor shortly before the vote, saying that adjourning before finishing work on the tax cut issue would be an "irresponsibility on the part of this Congress."
So, once again, Pelosi allows Boehner to make the framing of the issue one that looks favorable to the GOP. And, not only that, but it makes the GOP stance the bi-partisan one with those 39 Dems joining the GOP to extend the tax cuts across the board. At least that's the way it will appear on nightly news, I'm betting.
UPDATE: Here's the roll call on the vote - thanks to Adam B!