Can outgoing House Speaker avert the
biggest looming disaster for his successor, House Republicans taking the debt ceiling hostage? He
is not ruling out trying to get it done before he leaves at the end of next month.
"We'll have to see. There's a number of issues we're gonna have to try to deal with over the coming month, but I'm not going to change my decision making process in any way," Boehner told reporters when asked about the debt limit.
"It's just a matter of if there is a way to get some things done so I don't burden my successor, I'm gonna get it done," added Boehner with his likely successor, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), standing nearby.
Boehner could salvage some bit of dignity and leave office as a not-total failure if he managed to do this, because it's pretty critical to the health of the nation, the global economy, and all that. It would also be a rather satisfying "fuck you" to Sen. Ted Cruz, and that would be satisfying for
everyone.