Who’s side is weeper John Boehner on anyway? It’s certainly not the conservative’s side. Apparently, the Weeper of the House made a deal with the Democrats last night. Vote for the one week extension of DHS funding with Obama executive amnesty, and he’ll bring up a clean DHS funding bill next week for the Democrats and progressive Republicans to pass in the House. Boehner is cutting deals with Democrats, so why in the hell is he the Republican Speaker of the House?
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| Boehner promised Democrats vote on clean DHS bill next week |
Multiple Democratic aides confirmed leadership had promised their bosses a vote on the Senate-passed full funding bill next week. Two senior Democratic staffers added that they had heard from both caucus leadership and the White House that Boehner had given them an agreement to allow that vote to take place.
Even Democrats who were tight-lipped about whether Pelosi had told them of a deal said they had read—and believed—reports of the arrangement. Rep. Anna Eshoo, a Pelosi ally, was among many in the caucus who said the Minority Leader would not have switched course on short-term funding without earning the best deal she could. “This wouldn’t have been accepted if that wasn’t going to be the case,” she said.