John Boehner is Counting on Liberals to STAB Obama in the Back [View all]
John Boehner has revealed his strategy for winning the next round of fiscal negotiations, and it involves liberals caving and forcing Obama into a bad deal on spending cuts.
This little nugget of insight was buried in the middle of the recent
Wall Street Journal story on Boehner, Mr. Boehner says he has significant Republican support,
including GOP defense hawks, on his side for letting the sequester do its work. I got that in my back pocket, the speaker says. He is
counting on the presidents liberal base putting pressure on him when
cherished domestic programs face the sequesters sharp knife. Republican willingness to support the sequester, Mr. Boehner says, is as much leverage as were going to get.
Boehner is gambling that conservatives are tougher than liberals. The whole House
strategy is to convince liberals that Republicans are going to stick to their guns, and happily eat the defense cuts, in order to slash Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
The Speakers comments were a
tacit admission that the Republican strategy of
threatening Democrats, the president, and the left is
not working anymore. The president
has learned to wait out any threat that House Republicans make, because in the end,
he knows they will cave. Speaker Boehner needs a new weapon to use against the White House, and
he believes that weapon is the lefts inability to stand together.
Since
splitting the left is the stated Republican strategy, stories about the presidents
desire to cut earned entitlements attributed to anonymous sources
should start popping up in the mainstream media over the next month or so. House Republicans tried this
exact tactic during the fiscal cliff negotiations, and like clockwork the professional outrage machine on the left jumped in and started doing the
GOPs dirty work for them. (In the case of the fiscal cliff, Obama had floated a thought on Social Security as part of a deal that he knew Republicans would reject. Thus, the
president used the lefts outrage machine as political cover in order to appear moderate.)
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