Breitbart – Matthew Boyle – 9/21/2013
A major avenue is still open
through which Reid can get the amendment onto the bill with a simple majority.
If McConnell decides Obamacare is worth fighting in earnest on must-pass
legislation (ie non-symbolic votes), then he will deliver the 41 necessary
votes to filibuster until Reid is forced to agree to a clean up-or-down Senate
floor vote on the Obamacare defunding CR the House just passed. There is
something McConnell can do using his power that could accomplish this:
Filibuster the House CR until there is a unanimous consent agreement that any
amendments added to it after cloture is invoked would also each require a
60-vote threshold. The power rests now with McConnell. Delivering the 41 votes
is essential to help Ted Cruz.
Cruz added in that interview
that if Republicans “begin by surrendering” they automatically “lose 100% of
the battle.”
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