TIME: "The Speaker Has Gone Lame"

[kpete]

The weak speaker: How a failed debt vote disarmed the nation's top Republican
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By JAY NEWTON-SMALL | Time.com – 2 hrs 17 mins ago

House Speaker John Boehner failed to muster enough GOP votes to pass his plan to raise the debt limit on Thursday night, throwing into question the fate of Boehner's proposal as well as that of his speakership. Republican leaders must now rewrite the legislation in order to attract more conservatives as they try to pass a revised version on Friday. But considerable damage has been done. Boehner's negotiating stance in the ongoing effort to trim deficits and raise the debt ceiling by next Tuesday's deadline is hobbled; any credibility he had in claiming that his restive members could get behind a consensus debt deal has vanished. The Speaker has gone lame.

But it's clear now that Speaker Boehner will need Democratic votes to get any compromise through the House. And that leaves the Republican leader with two options: abandon Tea Party freshmen and form a coalition between his most moderate members and 150+ Dems, or potentially allow the last best hope for a debt ceiling deal to fail in his chamber, with nothing but market panic left to make his members reconsider. Either would be a bruising choice for the embattled Speaker.


http://news.yahoo.com/weak-speaker-failed-debt-vote-disarmed-nations-top-111905041.html

[wilt the stilt]

1. Limp n/t

[thereismore]

2. He took the gavel from Nancy. Now let him enjoy it. nt

[PATRICK]

3. OK, it looks

like they have decided to throw the Speaker to the wolves as a symbol of the total failure. They make it look personal to him and him alone. The MSM has spoken. So has real panic and determination set in yet among the full business community or is this another flexible set piece top continue the dramatic assault on the public? It is one thing to assign blame for the patently obvious especially when immense gains were tossed away by the useful idiots in the face of severe credit losses for America. It is another when all of a sudden they trumpet the personal failure of someone beside Obama.

I don't trust the reporting or analysis. The false flag debate goes on unabated as if the mere resolution of who gets to gore the Treasury is more important than the impact on millions of Americans.

[Major Hogwash]

4. Let's face it, Boehner has no leadership skills.

That's all there is to it.
Hell, he wouldn't be able to find his way out of a public restroom without the green "Exit" light over the door.

He'd just be going from stall to stall saying "Is this the exit? Is this it? Maybe this one's it."

[WI_DEM]

5. rewrite a bill that was already bad is DOA in the Senate--to make it even worse!

yeah, that's putting the country first.

[joeybee12]

6. It's nice when you wake up to some good news now and again...nt

[hifiguy]

7. "Gone" ???

Boner has been lame from the beginning. Anything beyond a golf course and a drink is well beyond his cognitive abilities.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. That's what the Tea Party was counting on.

Boehner unable to oppose them, not the democrats. With a weak leader, a minority has more strength than a majority.

OTOH a weak leader can be the greatest threat to democracy. Ask Neville Chamberlain. Or the leadership of the Weimar Republic who didn't see any harm is sharing a little power with Hitler and his party.

[mimitabby]

9. has he tried crying yet?

[Snotcicles]

10. Flaccid Boehner comes up short. nt