12/4/14, "Boehner scrambling to find Democrat votes for Cromnibus," Streiff, RedState
"• 3 hours ago "What on Earth is Boehner and the rest of the RINO leadership doing to the Republican Party? When she was Speaker, did Nancy Pelosi ever pass a major piece of legislation on the backs of Republicans and in opposition to her base? Seriously? Yet Boehner has done this time and time again. Here we are, three weeks after a landslide election in which virtually every Republican campaigned in opposition to amnesty and Obama's illegal action, and Boehner is advancing the Democrats' agenda.
"The Continuing Resolution/Omnibus appropriation bill, aka cromnibus, wending its way through the House is in trouble. Dissatisfaction with the bill and the underlying strategy to deal with Obama’s executive overreach is wide and deep in the GOP caucus and it seems like Boehner will have to violate the Hastert Rule in order to force the bill through the House. Via The Hill:
"Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) said Thursday he expects some House Democrats will join Republicans in passing a trillion-dollar spending package next week to avert a government shutdown.
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Boehner’s troubles in moving the bill grew on Thursday, when
Heritage Action, an influential conservative policy group, urged
Republicans to oppose the GOP package.
“The fight is now, not next year,” said Mike Needham, Heritage
Action’s chief executive officer. “Americans expect real action, not a
show vote.”
Hoyer said he’s spoken to Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)41%
(R-Calif.), the majority whip, about the cromnibus bill. But he
declined to say whether the Republicans are asking the Democrats for
votes.
"“McCarthy and I have talked,” Hoyer said. “I don’t want to say he’s reached out to me for votes, but we’ve talked about it.”
Asked if he thinks Republicans would need Democratic votes to pass the bill, Hoyer said simply, “I don’t know.”
Pelosi, for her part, said she’s spoken to Boehner in search of a
bipartisan agreement. But she declined to lend details about what
package would satisfy the Democrats.
“I have reached out to the Speaker and said…we want to work together to pass a bill to keep government open,” Pelosi said.
“As we had to supply the votes last year to open up government, let
us supply the votes to keep government open,” she added. “But we can’t
do it unless we have a bill that is worthy of our support.”"
To a great extent one of the best outcomes, other than Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)N/A using his newly acquired Obamacare coverage to have some of Erick’s gifts surgically
attached, would be for the Democrats to pull the rug out from under
Boehner, leaving him holding a bill that has the support of neither the
GOP nor the Democrats."
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