re: #188 Dark_Falcon

I’m not sure he can, mentally. What John Boehner doesn’t want is to be turfed out of the speakership and then become some lame-duck pariah. The problem is he hasn’t really been willing to risk enough to have a real chance of avoiding that outcome. He really needed to have made the case for actions other than shutdown early this year and then say he either needed his caucus to give him the freedom to speak for them or else accept his resignation.

He also should have pushed for more days in DC, to get members of Congress to be more of their committee and oversight functions. 2013 is not an election year for Congress, so the time was right for that action.

He could have also helped drain the fever swamp by not allowing 42 fucking votes on repealing the ACA in the first goddamn place.