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Showing Original Post only (View all)B-I-N-G-O, David Kurtz calls the Boehnner Cliff Fiasco Just Right [View all]
The likely truth is that John Boehner never had the votes to cut a deal with President Obama. Any deal. Not a grand bargain of deficit reduction. Not a piecemeal deal that might have lessened the blow of all the Bush tax cuts expiring on Jan. 1. Nothing.
If thats true, as I strongly suspect it is, then, yes, the last six weeks since the election have been a tour de force of kabuki theater. His Plan B was probably, in that scenario, his last ditch effort to escape this fiasco without having to admit that he never had the votes. Now that has failed, too, after a desperate 11th hour attempt to cajole, whip and bludgeon his Republican Members into voting for it.
It is easy to overreact to these things in the moment, to overread them. But Speaker Boehner just put it all on the line. The entire nation was watching, and he was exposed. He knows it. His conference knows it. Anyone left in Washington who had doubts about this speakers clout now knows it, too. In a parliamentary system, he would resign and his party would elect a new leader. We dont do it that way here usually. But its hard to see how Speaker Boehner continues from here or why he would want to.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/12/does_a_speaker_survive_this.php?ref=fpblg
If thats true, as I strongly suspect it is, then, yes, the last six weeks since the election have been a tour de force of kabuki theater. His Plan B was probably, in that scenario, his last ditch effort to escape this fiasco without having to admit that he never had the votes. Now that has failed, too, after a desperate 11th hour attempt to cajole, whip and bludgeon his Republican Members into voting for it.
It is easy to overreact to these things in the moment, to overread them. But Speaker Boehner just put it all on the line. The entire nation was watching, and he was exposed. He knows it. His conference knows it. Anyone left in Washington who had doubts about this speakers clout now knows it, too. In a parliamentary system, he would resign and his party would elect a new leader. We dont do it that way here usually. But its hard to see how Speaker Boehner continues from here or why he would want to.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/12/does_a_speaker_survive_this.php?ref=fpblg
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I hope the Republican Party stays in disarray until after the 2014 election if not forever.
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#9
Yeah, but then the centrist Republicans will switch to the Democratic party
JustABozoOnThisBus
Dec 2012
#11
Cantor is undermining Boehner because he wants to be speaker, or Plan B didn't generate enough
alfredo
Dec 2012
#16
Plan B was an effort not to lose his leadership position. I pray they hand it over to whoever is ...
marble falls
Dec 2012
#17
I don't see any legislation pass until 2015, when hopefully, voters vote the Republicans out.
RickFromMN
Dec 2012
#18