@DavidMDrucker so if that’s true, why not scrub the one offending policy rider in exchange for the Dem votes?
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@brianros1 Because you lose GOP votes & it's popular on the R side AND it was negotiated with Senate Dems. -
@DavidMDrucker I just think that’s what would’ve been open 40 years ago. You need the votes, so you cut a deal. Me, personally, I dislike -
@DavidMDrucker any policy rider not vetted by committee, regardless of what it is, but I know why they attach them. -
@DavidMDrucker I figure they’d get 50 Dems without the one provision, they’d get the campaign finance change & they won the spending battle -
@brianros1 There are Republicans they'd lose and it's important for GOP # to be high. -
@DavidMDrucker yeah, that makes sense. What it comes down to is that Boehner is conflicted between essentially being a centrist speaker and -
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