Why Boehner doesn’t just ditch the hard right
The thing that makes Boehner interesting is he’s very aware of his limited hand. Boehner doesn’t live in an imaginary world where he thinks he’s Tip O’Neill and he can bring people into his office and corral them into a certain vote. So he treads carefully, maybe too carefully. But he knows a clean CR has never been an option for him.
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What we're seeing is the collapse of institutional Republican power. It’s not so much about Boehner. It’s things like the end of earmarks. They move away from Tom DeLay and they think they're improving the House, but now they have nothing to offer their members. The outside groups don't always move votes directly but they create an atmosphere of fear among the members.
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unless they plan on not funding government for the rest of Obama's Presidency and the next (likely) Democratic administration. 
As long as they make unreasonable demands of the Senate and President Obama, there does not seem to be a way out of the current stalemate.
