However, not all of Boehner’s colleagues are rushing to join his immediate call for repeal. ThinkProgress caught up with Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) — a former GOP whip and current Senate candidate — to ask him if he supported Boehner’s plan. After pausing for a few seconds, Blunt danced around the question. When pressed again, Blunt said that “it’s just a hypothetical question” and “really doesn’t matter right now”:
TP: Obviously you’ve been following the financial reform bill. I was curious, if it ends up passing – which it looks like it will – would you be in favor of repealing the bill?
BLUNT: Well, the bill does look like it’s going to pass. I think probably what the most likely thing to happen now is that people are going to have to watch and see if the difficulties for small banks – the restriction on credit – really occurs. And if it does, as I anticipate it will, we’ll have to take a second look at this bill and the country will demand it.
TP: But you wouldn’t immediately be in favor of repealing it?
BLUNT: It’s just a hypothetical question, it really doesn’t matter right now.
TP: Well, you’d voted against it before. Do you regret that vote now, or do you still think that we shouldn’t have this law – well, this bill that’s about to become a law?
Blunt: Why don’t you get back to me when the bill becomes a law?
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