Well... Here's A Couple Of Sources (On Boehner Back Out) We Don't Necessarily Trust, That Said...

[WillyT]

Under pressure from right, Boehner nixes $4T debt deal
By: David Rogers and Jake Sherman
July 9, 2011 08:52 PM EDT

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House Speaker John Boehner, under pressure from the right and facing resistance from his own deputies, backed away Saturday from a bold $4 trillion deficit-reduction package that he once hoped would resolve the August debt ceiling crisis and give a shot in the arm to a lagging economy.

Tax policy disputes were at the center of the collapse, including differences with the White House over President Barack Obama’s demand that future tax reforms must maintain or increase the progressivity of the tax code. But for days Boehner has been under relentless pressure from conservatives to step away from the deal, which Saturday’s Wall Street Journal editorial writers dubbed “Boehner’s Obama Gamble.”

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More: http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=11876E01-01D0-DFB1-479762C2BF3AD10D

WSJ Editorial: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303365804576432164007052674.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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[OHdem10]

1. It is probably pretty accurate. All Democrats must remember

that when it is down to the crunch, the Tea Party
you could say rightfully controls the Republican
Party.

If we go back to the start of the Tea Party.
At that time, the Republicans had just lost 2 elections
in a row, their approval numbers were in the low\
teens. These are the facts. The Republicans had
no chance of winning the 2010 elections.

Recall all those scenes with Boehner almost weepy and
doing the public mea culpa so to speak. We did
not do what the people sent us here to do. we did
not cut spending.

Up from no where comes the Tea Party pushed by Faux.
Suddenly the MONEYED Libertarians join forces with
the Tea Party. They create enough negativity with
their protests that the coverage is guaranteed. No
nice peaceful march (no matter how large) is going
to get more than a brief one clip coverage. Tea Partiers
with noise gusto and a demanding attitude to MSM
got themselves covered. Negativity sells and Republicans
know this. They capitalize on it, in fact.

Next TEA PARTY was talking THIRD PARTY.

The GOP did not let any grass grow under their feet.
Embraced Tea Party and appear to have worked a deal
where the TEA PARTY becomes one with GOP. It appears
they play hardball when dealing. They left the THREAT
on the TABLE. Either Republicans push our(Tea Party)
issues or we pull out and become a Third Party.
If the Tea Party is a Third Party this means no Republican
Wins for eons and eons. You could say TEA PARTY
would have no wins either. This is true but they will
be willing to chance it in order to have control.

To be fair Boehner is not some quacked out Tea Partier.
There is only so much control that is given him.

Understanding this Democrats must be careful what they
offer and ask for.