So did the Democrats just decide to let the crazydam burst (re Boehner)?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

I can see the logic. Draw them out in the open and hope people finally notice how bad things really are.

[randys1]

1. Democrats? What did they do as to Boehner?

[HooptieWagon]

3. Dems in house could have backed him in a Speaker chair challenge.

As before. But they decided to cut him loose.

[randys1]

4. And they are also going to be relied on to pass a non PP defund bill to keep the

government going, so the new speaker will have to defy the crazies day one.

right?

[HooptieWagon]

5. That will be their excuse for a shutdown.

Obama has already said he would veto a budget that cuts PP.

[randys1]

6. THere are enough votes to avoid that, always has been, so the question is does the

new Terrorist in chief let them vote or not.

[HooptieWagon]

8. IDK.

Looks like tea party will control house leadership and all committees. I don't think they'll let a budget bill including PP funding come to a vote on floor. They WANT a showdown with Obama over this, even if it means a shutdown.

[randys1]

9. Well, since we know they want to harm as many Americans as they can, as badly as they can

you could be right.

They are terrorists who wish to cause death and destruction.

[HooptieWagon]

12. Just poor ones...

...and women, and minorities, and immigrants...etc.

[former9thward]

15. Democrats never backed him.

[HooptieWagon]

16. As recently as this past spring...

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/234766-dems-would-back-boehner-in-coup-attempt

[former9thward]

19. A hypothetical which did not happen.

He survived without a single Democratic vote.

[HooptieWagon]

2. I think that's the plan.

A full year before the GE...give the GOP the rope to hang themselves with. While a years worth of shutdowns, impeachments, and votes to kill ObamaCare will be stupid, the voters will probably realize the GOP is batshit crazy and wants to destroy the govt not run it.

[world wide wally]

7. The ONLY thing Boehner has going for him is that the next one will be worse.

I wouldn't consider him a "friend" of any kind… or even reasonable beyond relative terms

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Agreed. He was just the rusty gate keeping the vicious dogs penned in.

[Warpy]

11. Democrats had nothing to do with this one.

This is their mess. Let them deal with the fallout.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. Sounds like Democrats could have helped preserve the status quo.

They just didn't think it was worth it at this point.

[FreakinDJ]

13. Nope - this is Bohner's Coup De-tat on house Dems

Kaos will reign supreme and it will be 24/7 RepubliCON talking points in the News Cycle - hopefully to propel their candidate into the white house

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. Nothing's gonna get done in an election year anyway.

Nothing to lose by keeping the camera trained on the crazy train.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. Apparently they did

and, may I say, good for them. I know that, relatively speaking, Boehner may not be as bad as whoever is likely to follow him but he's pretty much gone along with the crazies every since he became Speaker and his tenure as Speaker of the House has been marked by little than throwing our historically stable federal government (regardless of party) into near constant turmoil over the budget causing/threatening a shutdown and/or debt default just about every other year since 2011. Hopefully, he is staying on until the end of October to help ensure that there won't be a shutdown (what's he got to lose at this point, right?) and that we will be able to keep things running-more or less- smoothly through the end of Obama's Presidency.