We have the same thing in the TX House of Representatives, with “moderate” Speaker Joe Straus holding on with all the Democratic votes and a couple of dozen Republican votes. The conservatives, who have the House plurality, hence lose over and over. Even when conservatives make headway, nothing counts because they lack the supermajority.
I have changed my mind.
I don’t think Bonehead is going to make his House Rino Monkeys vote
on a tax increase for the rich. After all, his House Rino Monkeys are the
source of his power. Why would he make them vote for a tax increase,
when many of them would be primaried out of office in 2014?
He won’t expose them.
However, after tonight, when taxes go up on everybody, he will allow a
vote to reducing taxes on most brackets. That’s my line of thinking now.