Spineless Boehner's big political fail

[UCmeNdc]

The speaker’s closest allies say he cannot afford to defy those on his right flank by ending the shutdown with largely Democratic votes.

Doing so would undermine his position among his members going into negotiations with the White House and Democrats over raising the federal debt limit, which Boehner and his leadership team regard as more critical than the impasse on government funding. Coming up empty-handed for conservatives on both would have broader ramifications.

Republicans who support the speaker argue that if he is going to antagonize the conservatives in his caucus, it would make more sense to do so on the debt-ceiling debate rather than on the funding of the government.

As painful as the government shutdown may be to some, the Treasury Department’s ability to use special measures to manage the nation’s finances will run out Oct. 17, setting up a potential default on the $16.7 trillion debt that would wreak far more havoc on the global financial markets than the shuttering of federal agencies and national parks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/john-boehner-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-on-shutdown-and-debt-limit/2013/10/02/32a27f1a-2b9f-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads

Boehner needs to control his hard right by reaching agreements with the Democratic Reps. Problem solved.

[djean111]

1. It is only a political fail if this is not exactly what Boehner is supposed to do.

Maybe there are a lot of goodies that can be snapped up cheaply when there is havoc in global markets.
I admit I don't know how this would benefit the 1%, but perhaps it does, and their picture is bigger than ours, for sure.
It is like a perfect storm of the religious Right, the 1%, whoever else stands to gain from havoc.

[AlinPA]

2. Boehner wants the default, otherwise he would have moved for a vote to stop the craziness.

It's not a matter of losing control of the hard right -- he is the hard right.