John Boehner, legislative genius
(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
This is kind of hilarious, in a twisted sort of way:
So Boehner – now liberated from the need to be sit politely across from Obama in the Cabinet Room – is framing the debt battle in the starkest anti-Obama terms to rally his troops.
“Here’s the challenge,” he told his rank-and-file on a Sunday afternoon conference call, “To stop [Obama], we need a vehicle that can pass in both houses.”
To me, this seems like the words from an exasperated yet weak-willed parent trying to trick a child into doing something.
"Honey," he seems to be saying, "if you want to grow up and be big and strong, you need to eat your spinach!" Except this child doesn't want to grow up to be big and strong, he wants to "stop" Obama.
Boehner's problem is that passing a bipartisan plan to raise the debt limit (eating his spinach), won't stop Obama. It's what Obama wants. And House Republicans know it.