Boehner has already said the bill, as is, will not pass the House.
The House has its own gang working on a bill so that’s not automatically good news, however...
Lets just say for arguments sake that Boehner didn’t say that or didn’t mean that when he said it...
Boehner way back when vowed that the House would never consider a Senate bill, no matter what it was, if Reid goes nuclear in a rule change to fundamentally alter the Senate’s deliberate process.
IOW, if Senate Republicans are steamrollered by Reid, Boehner will treat any such bill as poisoned and it’s DOA.
I know Boehner is hated and I know what his deficiencies are. However, there’s no doubt whatsoever that he means that. Reid would leave him no choice but to stick up for the Senate GOP.
Same goes for rank-and-file GOP in the House. They would not stand for Reid doing this nor would they stand for Boehner cowtowing to Reid.
I agree. The bill is dead if Reid changes the senate rules. The house will not even look at the bill.