Boehner’s `moment of truth’ arrives-'The Only Way Out-An Alliance Of Non-Tea Party Repukes & Dems'

[kpete]

The Morning Plum: John Boehner's `moment of truth' arrives
By Greg Sargent
October 16 at 9:01 am



From the very beginning of this whole crisis, two facts have been plainly obvious to anyone who cared to appreciate the basic dynamics of the situation:

1)

The incentives always argued overwhelmingly in favor of Dems refusing to concede any meaningful ground to the GOP demand for major unilateral concessions in a context where Republicans were using the threat of extensive harm to the country to get their way. This was the only way to prevent this from happening to Dems -- and the country -- again.

2)

There was never any compromise that could prove acceptable to both Tea Party conservatives on one side, and Obama and Senate Dems on the other. One side believes it must reserve the threat of widespread damage to the country as leverage to cripple the Obama presidency before it destroys the country. The other wants to end use of that as leverage for good. That core difference was inherently unbridgeable.

Today, with Senators close to a deal to reopen the government and lift the debt limit, John Boehner may finally have to come to terms with those two facts, and accept their implications: The only way out of this mess is through an alliance of non-Tea Party Republicans and Democrats.

The collapse of the House's plan to end the crisis -- precipitated by conservatives who said it didn't extract enough in concessions on Obamacare in exchange for averting widespread harm to the country - once again confirms point two above. Meanwhile, Jackie Calmes has a good piece reporting on the White House's conclusion early on that the only real option was to refuse to legitimize GOP extortion tactics, having been badly burned in 2011. This basic White House motive should have been obvious for weeks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/10/16/the-morning-plum-john-boehners-moment-of -truth-arrives/

[Graybeard]

1. ...only way out is...an alliance...

So it finally gets through to them that when

the House works the way it's supposed to

work,,,,it works!

...... ......