“Somebody had to take on the Tea
Party that has turned Boehner’s tenure as House speaker into a
living hell.
Too bad for Republicans, that
someone was a Democrat rather than one of their own, which would have
signaled that the party is fit to govern. By calling the bluff of a
tiny band of burn-the-place-down Tea Party activists leading their
colleagues over domestic (the government shutdown) and global
(the debt ceiling) cliffs, Barack Obama exposed the
fact that they didn’t come to Washington to fix anything, only to
tear everything but air-traffic control down.”
Margaret Carlson weighs up Boehner's chances
I leave you to ponder what it means when a business pundit says:
“The meltdown on Capitol Hill
doesn’t mean the end of the Tea Party. In fact, most of those
lawmakers accurately point out that they are doing what the
constituents in their painfully drawn, one-sided, overwhelmingly
white, aging, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, science-denying districts
want. Still, there are emerging signs -- from declining poll numbers
to the breach with the Republican Party’s traditional business
allies -- that the act is getting old. Mess with Democratic totems
such as Social Security and nutritional programs for pregnant
mothers, send Sarah Palin to Washington periodically to pour salt
on open wounds, but don’t mess with Treasury bills and the
markets.”
The article is here. It's a juicy one. Heh, heh!
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