Romney polled Senate Republicans. They want a clean funding bill.

Romney polled Senate Republicans. They want a clean funding bill.

Mitt Romney polled his fellow GOP senators during a private lunch on Wednesday: How many of them would prefer a clean government funding patch over the bill the Senate is taking up this week, which is stocked with billions of dollars in emergency spending on causes like aiding Ukraine? A clear majority of hands in the room shot up to support the clean bill. On one level that might sound encouraging: There is apparently majority support among Sen…