I’m SURE Reid will use the necesary trickery to make this need only 51 votes for passage. Would be nice if amendments could me made which would force it into Conference, but the leadership chooses the Conferees, so they probably wouldn’t change anything.
Bottom line is, after the vote in the House yesterday, the Senate leadership wanting it to happen, there’s little chance of killing this, unless 51 Senators can be found to oppose it.
This has to be one of the most idiotic things I’ve EVER seen by a party that just enjoyed a resounding electoral victory. Boner is literally pissing away half of the election by surrendering an entire year of influence over the budget/appropriations.
Boner SHOULD NOT retain his Speakership when the new Congress organizes next year!!! (ditch the rest of the worthless House Leadership too!!!)
That was my idea. Try to put garbage amendments on it that nobody would ever vote for.