If I understand it all (and please someone feel free to correct me if needed), I believe the Senate could edit the Boehner bill, heck even gut it almost completely with just something small still intact, and so long as it got voted in, they could then send it back with it still being considered the Boehner bill since that was the foundation of which they had to work with. Reid would say he’s “incorporating” some changes into it. It would have Boehner’s name on it.
Now while that bill might not represent Boehner’s bill at all, and I believe the House has the right to reject it, he’s still rejecting something with his name attached to it, and the Dems will have a public relations hey day with that. “Well,” I can hear them saying, “The Republicans can’t even accept their own leader’s bill now!”
Kind of like a buyer who puts an offer on paper to buy a house. The seller gets the offer in writing then changes the price, adds additional downpayment amount, deletes any concessions like a carpeting allowance, and scratches off the part asking for some closing cost assistance, and then hands it back. While the offer is not the same, the paper it was written on is.
I don't know if that could ever be done, but I do know not to ever accept an offer and then back out. Because if you do the Realtor that brought the buyer still gets his commission. I know of a person who did that and the seller even went to court thinking he had the right to back out and he lost and the Realtor got a whopping $40,000 commission anyway.
Yes they would certainly attempt to tar Boehner with refusing to support “his own” bill, but that would be so transparently disingenuous that I don’t think that even the most dense mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging non-voter would fall for it.