Gaffer, I am not picking a fight, but it looks like Boehner came through on this one. He (and others) passed it right through the House, but now it seems to be held up by the Senate squishiness. Squishiness, not only from the GOPe but it looks to me like the Tea Party Conservative leadership is folding like cheap suit.
Is this any different from Harry Reid’s Senate?
These politicians are all about facades and trickery. Cloture Show Votes are one mechanism in the Senate, dispensation (allowing a struggling Representative to go against the majority when the Speaker is already assured of a Pyrrhic victory, etc.)
We've already seen what Boehner has done to those that voted against him for the Speakership. Why would his seeming to come through on this be reason to be for him. In my mind, at best he warrants a suspicious 'conditional' approval. :0)
What 6 Democrats are going to join the GOP to allow the bill through? That’s the problem. There isn’t yet a problem with the GOP members themselves not staying in line...but that’ll probably come when enough decide to cave in to the Democrats of this HS funding bill.
And threatening to not allow the Democrats to bring up anything they wish isn’t going to ban incentive...Reid was doing that to his own party last year to protect Obama from having to make decisions on whether or not to sign bills, so to them, the GOP blocking them would just be the status quo.