Today on “This Week” Speaker Boehner said Stand and Deliver, President Obama!

“We’re not going to pass a clean debt limit increase,” he said. “I told the president, there’s no way we’re going to pass one. The votes are not in the House to pass a clean debt limit. And the president is risking default by not having a conversation with us.”

Now, this seems to be contrary to what we’ve been hearing all week, that there are enough votes between Republicans and Democrats to pass a clean continuing resolution (and presumably debt ceiling hike too) if the Speaker would bring those bills to the floor.

So later Senator Schumer said on the same show

“Well, first, the speaker said there aren’t the votes on the floor to re-open the government. Let me issue him a friendly challenge. Put it on the floor Monday or Tuesday. I would bet there are the votes to pass it,” Schumer said on ABC’s “This Week” appearing just after Boehner. “We have just about every Democrat, 21 Republicans have publicly said they would. There are many more Republicans who have said that they privately would.”

“So, Speaker Boehner, just vote. Put it on the floor and let’s see if you’re right.”

Any bets whether Boehner takes up the challenge?

No, I thought not.