John McCain expressed this inevitable outcome where the GOP is now between a "rock and a hard place" or up "$#!T Creek without a paddle" and you are headed to "Head Splattering Rapids", when he said that the Democrats had better help the Republicans from their own manufactured political humiliation.
I tried to think through what that humiliation would be and now it is plain as the "day is luckin' long" for a Republican staffer who is part of the 21% that ABC-WAPO found supporting the GOP Congress.
The Senate will pass their deal that will not include any "seat of their pants" demands for the "fools errand" (that is how McCain described his Party's totally irresponsible governance that only spoiled and self entitled rich kids could come up with in their alternative realities) and give it to the House and Boehner.
He has few alternatives. He puts it on the floor and the Tea Party amends it and sends it back to the dead end loop of No. ALL BAD since there is no time left and the markets crash.
But then there is his savior, "Discharge Petition" where on paper are signatures of at least 20 if not more Republicans joining the Democrats to put the non amended bill on the House Floor for a vote and the end of the Hastert Rule and his Speakership.
The Tea Party revolts and ends his tenure...Boehner is done. It is over. Start up some sun tan franchises.