John Boehner: Obama owns this shutdown now

obvious Child said:

Well, right now there are rumblings that the moderate GOP are willing to deal, specifically to pass a clean CR.

My feeling is that Boehner knows there are enough GOP votes to join the Dems to pass it. But that would mean abandoning his party. The Hasert rule has been violated so many times, but this is something else entirely.

IMO, the Democrats should hammer the crap out of the GOP in proving that there aren't enough votes. And they should resort to a discharge petition to force the vote. If Boehner really believes there aren't enough votes, he'll score political points in having the clean CR die on the floor. But something tells me he's afraid it's going to pass.

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