Epic Fail

[WilliamPitt]

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times)

Epic Fail
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Friday 29 July 2011

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

- Benjamin Franklin

A tidal wave of Stupid washed over Washington DC on Thursday night, and when the sun rose on Friday to shine on the calendar of doom - four days left until default - it became all too evident that a manufactured crisis had suddenly transformed into a very, very real one.

House Speaker Boehner attempted to ram through a draconian debt-limit bill in order to force Senate Democrats to reject it - more theater, of course - but found himself unable to control his own caucus. After a feverish day-long attempt to whip enough votes to pass the measure, Boehner's Tea Party right flank told him to take his bill, fold it, spindle it, and shove it where the orange don't reach.

Boehner, in a moment of almost pure humiliation, was forced to pull his own bill. The markets opened down on Friday morning, and his inability to wrangle his own people not only put his Speakership in mortal peril, but also threatened to spook the financial world into a meltdown, as reports of a slowing economy arrived with the same news of his epic flameout.

The rest: http://www.truth-out.org/epic-fail/1311951029

[WI_DEM]

1. Now Bohner will do anything just to get a bill passed

He'll no doubt cave on every tea party demand.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. He already has: reinserting the BBA

It was fairly clear yesterday that the Tea Idiots were in just a 2-year-old-in-a-fancy-restaurant tantrum about the removal of the BBA. So it's back in. Presumably, these political novices know that the BBA is fucking deader than anything in the Senate, but they think they'll get some campaign leverage or something by forcing the Dem Senators to vote against it (where Cut, Cap, and Balance was merely tabled). They're out of their minds.

[Solomon]

2. "Shove it where the orange don't reach"

:rofl:

[Enrique]

3. yeah i liked that too

:rofl:

[bullwinkle428]

4. I predicted several months ago that Boner wouldn't finish out

this session of Congress as Speaker. I just didn't think it would happen this soon!

[Morizovich]

7. Speaker Cantor

That's what I call Eric Fail.

[lonestarlib]

6. Already Caved! Added baggers' balanced budget amendment

to bill.

[trumad]

8. The saddest Tangerine in WASHINGTON

[Atman]

9. He should still be washing dishes in daddy's diner.

That's about all he's good for. Peter Principle X1000. The man is so far in over his head it isn't funny.

.

[phantom power]

10. "How's it going with your monster, Dr. Frankenstine"

[Fire1]

11. The lunatic fringe. n/t

[mikeytherat]

12. "But I really, really want to see what's in Pandora's box. Oh, come on! Just one little peek..."

mikey_the_rat

[Scurrilous]

13. K & R

:thumbsup:

[WilliamPitt]

14. Kick

[KamaAina]

15. He looks like he's about to

:cry:

:nopity:

[WilliamPitt]

16. .

[Owl]

17. K&R

[WilliamPitt]

18. One last kick