re: #203 Dr Lizardo

Then the only choice Boehner has at this point in time is to suspend the ‘Hastert Rule’, rustle up 20-odd centrist Republicans and get the Democrats on board.

Endgame.

That’s where we were a month ago. It’s been that way from the beginning. Without the Hastert rule, we’d have a budget deal and a debt ceiling increase without the drama. With it, Boehner went all in with the Tea Party extortionists, and they should get nothing except lost elections from here on out. Except that they’ll get to keep their seats because they’ve been gerrymandered into safety. The threat the GOP extortionists make is that if anyone strays from their line that they’d primary those who go over and actually keep the nation from defaulting with more extremist candidates.

Cowards. The lot of the GOP are a bunch of cowards - from Speaker Boehner on down.

And that cowardice extends to the way they look at the President and his signature legislative achievement - the PPACA (ACA, Obamacare). It’s a center-right proposal born from Heritage and GOP ideas countering Hillarycare, but he got it done. They went from support to claiming their idea was unconstitutional in the blink of an eye. All because they simply can’t accept the legitimacy of the President (and the same people who smear the President with birther nonsense are at it with Cory Booker too - see above).