You have zero chance of passing something, when boner and the rest of the leadership are busy negotiating their own secret deal, which is still going on. The house needs to be returned to its legal foundation and let the committees write bills. Stop this crap of the speaker claiming it is his empire and he rules the place.
Exactly right. Boehners major error here was the ongoing private meetings with the inept leaders of the other party, and presenting his own bill to get rushed through. This is exaclty what we voted against last year. I am pleased with some aspects of boehners performance this past week or two, but on this front he failed and got manipulated.
No, you cannot have committees writing legislation. They cannot take the chance that an independent mind may refuse to follow orders.