The war on the right… could come from GOP!

[DonViejo]

If there's a government shutdown later this month, it's because Boehner will be going to war with conservatives

BY BRIAN BEUTLER

First things first, let’s stipulate that if there’s a government shutdown at the end of the month — and I continue to doubt there will be — it will happen because House Speaker John Boehner chooses to precipitate one.

He can always partner with Democrats to pass a temporary, uncontroversial government spending bill if he wants to, because almost all Democrats will vote for it, and there are still a few dozen Republicans in the House who are both sane and unintimidated by the threat of a primary challenge from the right.

Whatever happens is his decision. The latest doomed-to-fail idea floating around top GOP circles is that leadership should try to trick rank and file Republicans into voting to fund the government by passing a larded-up debt limit increase first — even though the debt limit deadline is a few weeks off — and pretending they won’t cave on it later.

There are plenty of reasons this is unlikely to work, which I’ll explain in a followup article. If Boehner then picks a shutdown, it won’t be because he’s gone full Tea Party. If anything, Boehner’s relationship with the right wing of his party is more strained than ever. He openly derided the dead enders in his conference to the press last week, and has bemoaned their unreasonableness in private to other congressional leaders, who are left twiddling their thumbs while the window for avoiding a shutdown closes.

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/17/why_shutting_the_government_would_be_a_dangerous_stroke_of_genius/

[AlinPA]

1. LOL. He would be going to war with himself.