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geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 06:58 PM Feb 2015

One of the few rational conservative bloggers called it earlier this afternoon

Sounds like Boehner’s going to have to do this with Republican votes, which means he can only afford to lose 27 conservatives. My gut says he’ll lose more than that, just because this humiliating fiasco won’t be complete without an embarrassing floor-vote failure for the GOP at the last minute. But maybe I’m wrong: House conservatives also understand that McConnell, not Boehner, is chiefly to blame for their loss of leverage. Maybe they’ll cut Boehner a break temporarily and vote for a three-week punt, knowing that if he tries to pass a clean long-term bill for DHS next month with no immigration concessions, they can always vote no then and kill that bill.


Baa haaa haaa.

Fully 51 Republicans voted no. I need a drink.



http://hotair.com/archives/2015/02/27/punt-boehner-to-offer-clean-three-week-funding-bill-for-dhs-to-buy-time-on-amnesty-strategy/
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