Agreed. Reid can wait til July and ram it through once he changes the rules ... can’t he?
Boehner has already said the bill, as is, will not pass the House.
The House has its own gang working on a bill so that’s not automatically good news, however...
Lets just say for arguments sake that Boehner didn’t say that or didn’t mean that when he said it...
Boehner way back when vowed that the House would never consider a Senate bill, no matter what it was, if Reid goes nuclear in a rule change to fundamentally alter the Senate’s deliberate process.
IOW, if Senate Republicans are steamrollered by Reid, Boehner will treat any such bill as poisoned and it’s DOA.
I know Boehner is hated and I know what his deficiencies are. However, there’s no doubt whatsoever that he means that. Reid would leave him no choice but to stick up for the Senate GOP.
Same goes for rank-and-file GOP in the House. They would not stand for Reid doing this nor would they stand for Boehner cowtowing to Reid.
Agreed. Reid can wait til July and ram it through once he changes the rules ... can’t he?
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Possibly....but I suspect that that course of action might have the effect of having some “fence sitting” Representatives over in the House go down on the side of voting NO!
And no, that is not wishful thinking but my considered opinion. With the 2014 elections approaching, many folks in Congress are getting very skittish about being associated with anything that even hints at being associated with corruption. And Reid passing something using a bypass of traditional “regular order” has the smell of corruption to me.
The American people are gradually awakening from their slumber and are beginning to recognize the rampant corruption in Washington and to recognize who is engaging in it.