John Boehner should show some dignity and do the honorable thing.

[Nye Bevan]

I get the feeling that in his heart he is disgusted with having to pander to the tea party crazies in his eagerness to hold on to his speakership. And that he understands how horribly dangerous it is to play with the idea of the US defaulting on its debt. Instead of throwing away all of his self-respect he should acknowledge that he is incapable of bridging the gap with the Michele Bachmann type lunatics, and bow out gracefully. If he did that I would actually have a modicum of respect for the guy.

[BlueToTheBone]

1. I believe you will see Orange Man's true color

Sort of jaundiced liver color...as in coward and drunk. No, he won't shoot himself in the head. He doesn't have either honor or dignity.

[AlinPA]

2. Boehner has joined the teabaggers and is a lunatic himself.

[Nye Bevan]

3. Possibly..... but I think it is more that he is pandering to the teabaggers.

Of course it is difficult to tell.

[AlinPA]

12. Yes. Especially listening to his speeches and press conferences. In them he sounds like a teabagger.

[catnhatnh]

4. But what if after the belly cut...

...he finds he hasn't a single friend in congress to take his head?

[Old Navy]

5. The Hastert Rule is what is blocking Boehner..

He needs to order that Rule null and void and go across the aisle and work with Pelosi and the Democrats to get the job done.

But unfortuantely I don't think Boehner knows how to get rid of that rule.

He needs to resign right now from the Speaker position (as he is quitting that role after '14) and let the 'Baggers try to take it head on.

[Nye Bevan]

10. If he does that he is likely to lose his speakership anyway.

So he might as well resign it as opposed to being fired from it.

[Mass]

6. Boehner and dignity do not belong to the same sentence. He has none.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. True that

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. He'll just self medicate and forget it all

I imagine he was one of the many drunk Congressman reported last night.

[etherealtruth]

8. Boehner of course knows this is wrong

He will only act in his own personal political self interest.

[madamesilverspurs]

11. Boehner is dangerously incompetent.

But if he resigned he'd be replaced by Eric Cantor, who is notoriously dangerously ambitious and willing to stomp on anyone anywhere to satisfy that ambition. Boehner can be trusted to be incompetent; nobody should ever trust Cantor for anything. Those who see him as Brutus do so with good reason.

[durablend]

13. That was my thought too

Get rid of Boner and things get monumentally worse.

[kentuck]

14. Yep

Most incompetent in my memory.