XinTX wrote:jmra wrote:XinTX wrote:Keep in mind that the Leahy amendment gathered 58 votes. So they were two shy of putting that in place.
Wrong. They were 2 votes away from sending it to the house where it would not have stood a snowballs chance in hades. They knew from the get go that none of this was going anywhere. This has all been political posturing from the very beginning.
With Boehner as Speaker, I have NO confidence that he wouldn't negotiate a surrender.
Boehner is a master of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
