Stuck between the Tea Party and a hard place

[Contrary1]

DAYTON, Ohio — "This John Boehner was not the John Boehner that Tea Party leaders in the room thought they knew.

Compared to the Boehner who talked tough on spending ahead of last November's elections, the one who showed up at Club 55, just off Interstate 75 in Troy in southwestern Ohio, struck them as timid.

The private April 25 meeting was convened by the Speaker of the House of Representatives at the request of Tea Party leaders, who were seething over recent Republican compromises, most notably on the 2011 budget.

One of the 25 or so leaders, all from Boehner's district, asked him if Republicans would raise America's $14.3 trillion debt limit..."

Boehner: You betcha!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43060886/ns/politics-more_politics/

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1. The GOP's creation has slipped its leash

For 30 years or more, the GOP has been demagoguing all kinds of issues, cultivating a latter day know-nothing party that only understands "Hulk Smash!" when it comes to federal agencies, policies, and the like. Now that they've finally tunneled down to governmental bedrock, they can't stop their nitwit brigade from proceeding, convinced that Shangri-La is just a little deeper, where taxes don't exist, services are plentiful, and "those people" are kept forever in their place. Oh, and everybody gets free Rascal scooters. The GOP can continue to pander to these idiots, or they can break out the pills of bitter reality.

It's been such a long time since the GOP has gone any heavy lifting politically speaking, that I don't see them taking on their monster anytime soon. Far easier to blame "liberals" defined as anyone to the left of Jim DeMint.

[ThomWV]

2. Boehner will go down with Newt as the two men who managed to shut down the US Government

And Boehner will pay the same price Newt did.