>Boehner won't let the vote occur because he knows that he'll lose and it will be funded, so it's a bit of a stretch to say that the house wants to fund everything but ACA.
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>I agree with a couple of things you've said (I mean this half-jokingly - for a guy who is to the left of center, you're actually quite honest, haha)
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>But on this one I don't agree. Remember, how many votes has the House taken to defund AHCA? :)

I'll leave arguing over the validity of parliamentary maneuvers to those who savor those things.
One way or another, they will muddle thru this.

As I said, the repubs have made a huge bet on the failure of the ACA and they're doing everything in their power to make the bet valid.
Tactically, it makes no sense to me.
If the ACA fails, Obama and company can point to hundreds of things that the repubs have done - including all those votes you mentioned - and this silliness - to thwart it and deny health care to people who can't otherwise afford it. If you recall, they did it to Bill and Hillary's health care plan in the first Clinton administration and if anything, their actions increased the zeal of its supporters for the next round.

If the ACA succeeds on the other hand, these bozoes might well have put the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower in the history books with the Whigs.

That's a lousy bet, as I see it.