Pic Of The Moment: Obama Calls GOP Government Shutdown Plan What It Is: Extortion

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26. Nothing To Lose

I think John Boehner wants the GOP (in it current form) to commit political suicide by letting Ted Cruz and the tea party crowd lead the GOP into a government shutdown.

On the surface a shutdown would appear to be suicide for Boehner and the GOP because it will probably lead to major voter backlash in the 2014 midterms giving the Democrats the majority in the House. But when you think about it, it makes sense. Establishment Republicans would love to kill off the wacky tea party movement prior to the 2016 presidential election and they need to get away from being opposed to Obamacare; they lost that fight and they need find a way to give it up. Discrediting the teabagers now might allow the Republican party to move a little bit to the center over the next two years. Why would John Boehner agree to do this you ask, because he has nothing to lose at this point. Boehner has completely lost control of his caucus so there is no way that he will remain on as speaker after 2014. If Boehner is voted out as speaker by his own party he is ruined; if he looses the gavel to Nancy Pelosi, then he saves face. John Boehner could come out of shutdown looking like a victim (within his own party) while Cruz would be the evil villain who precipitated the Democratic takeover of the House.