John Boehner blinked. I feel sorry for the guy. The Republican tea party caucus threw him under the bus. Boehner had to come out and take a position that some have described as handing Barack Obama the keys to the White House in 2012. Why? He didn’t have the votes because of the recalcitrant uber conservative members of Congress.
Moderate and mainstream Republicans quickly saw the handwriting on the wall and turned on him. Poor Boehner is getting ridden like someone’s old rented mule by all the Democrats and many Republicans. No one from the Uber-Cons could explain why they couldn’t just give a temporary pass to this piece of legislation.
The bottom line is, the Democrats drove the tea party Uber-Cons into a canyon, boxed them in, and not even John McCain or Mitch O’Connell would come to the rescue. Regular Republicans don’t want to be seen as raising taxes…not today..not any day.
The sad thing is, I am not sure poor John Boehner deserves the blame. I know people are calling for his head on a platter. I don’t see that the Uber-Cons gave him any choice. No one wants to be John Boehner today. Just think….he took the job away from Pelosi who is bound to be having a chuckle right now.
So…what could Boehner have done to have avoided such a trap? What were his options? Did he cave with grace?
Speaking of traps… What is that substance Ron Paul has stepped in? Could it be reindeer doo? It looks like it is sticking to him like glue. He is being accused of saying some pretty stupid things in his newsletter, in print. Of course, he didn’t read them.
