I can’t explain everything but I can explain the parliamentary trick being played here:
Boehner gets a weak bill through the House that the RINOs in the Senate will support.
Reid kills, “tables”, it.
He sends his own bill up but Senate rules require 40 Senators to agree to anything- the language in the bill, the procedures for handling the bill.
That’s called ‘cloture’.
The Senate RINOs, because the House gave them a weak bill they can support, block the cloture votes Reid needs unless the bill includes the two-part debt ceiling mechanism and cuts bigger than the debt increase.
That’s it in a nutshell. Not a ‘bamboozle’ just everyday politicking.
I guess I don’t understand any of this..