As I see it, McConnell is pretty much irrelevant but Boner is in the eye of the storm.

[Stinky The Clown]

McConnell can just pack it in and go home. Nobody gives a shit what he has to say. Dems own the Senate even more than they did before the election.

So that leaves the entire "opposition" up to Boner. And the country is in no mood for fucking around. They want shit done and they want said shit done faster than yesterday. Boner knows this.

But Boner also knows the Crazy Wing of the repubican party is feeling pretty scared. Like the real people in the country, the Crazy Wing is in no mood for fucking around. They feel they have to get *their* shot done and get it done faster than yesterday, too.

And then there's Grover Oz.

It sure sucks to be Boner. (Note: the double entendre requires "sucks" and "boner" being in each other's position in the sentence.)

Which way do you think Boner will bend? To the grownups or to the right wing hard core?

I'm thinking he will cave big time.

[Scuba]

1. I expect Rusty Boner to disappear on a drunken binge. When he reappears he will claim amnesia.

He'll live out his days bouncing between drunk tanks, rehab facilities and Fox News studios.

In his final days a cub reporter will write that he asked Boner "what is your greatest regret?" to which a weepy-eyed Boner replies "I never broke 100, and I never got a hole-in-one."

[bluestate10]

2. Democrats must modify filibuster rules on day one. If democrats don't, they make McConnell

very relevant.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

3. +1 nt

[SDjack]

4. Boner will get drunk this weekend, call Pelosi and make a deal, get drunk,

return to WDC, regret the deal, call Pelosi and try to back out, get drunk again, kick Cantor's ass out of his office, call Pelosi and ask for a date, clean himself up, and a GOP-DEM coalition will roll the T-Baggers.