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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDow is UP 50 and everyone seems optimistic about a deal. But why would Boehner sign off on it?
What makes people think that Boehner would allow a deal that is acceptable to Obama to come to a vote?
melody
(12,365 posts)He will agree to it or they won't sign off on it.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)melody
(12,365 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,291 posts)Per recent House rules on the CR.
melody
(12,365 posts)He can replace Cantor.
I should say I base that opinion on a cursory reading of the roles of order someone posted on another site.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)The big money donors could have given him a call telling him they were cutting off his supply of money for next years election. Boehner may be scared of the tea party, but when it comes to cold hard cash, well that will always win out over simple fear!
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)And Cantor will do what the corporations want.
You just have to know whose boss.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...and other party elites.
I get so confused about the corrupt entities that control this Republican mess. Their party is like an octopus, with
several different tentacles of corporate daddies and extremist factions to which the central mechanism must kow
tow.
I don't understand the dynamics here.
So...are we to believe that Bohner was acting at the behest of Koch and other corporate corrupters coddled by
the Republican party--but that Cantor never signed off on it. And now, Cantor is putting an end to that failed
plan?
So which corporations is Cantor serving? And these Cantor-interests are in direct disagreement with the Kochs?
I can't keep the evil straight.
melody
(12,365 posts)May as well give up.
TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)melody
(12,365 posts)with Cantor or anyone else. They'd just grab the thing, take it to the floor and hope for the best. It's all a crapshoot.
Honestly, guys. lol
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)And the blame will be his and the House Republicans' alone.
Which would lead to a well-deserved bloodbath in 2014, and their permanent extinction as a national party.
Does he want to have his legacy be the man who destroyed the Full Faith and Credit of the US and the Republican party as well?
Nope.