[palmer]

“I may not like the five cards that were dealt to me but those are the cards I’ve got in my hand,”

Here the other side's cards:
1. USSC was pressured to uphold Obamacare
2. Slight loss in R House seats and members who will cave (e.g. my rep Wolf who caves on important things like TARP)
3. D Senate gains and Reid's hand on the nuclear button
4. Obama's support from the media
5. Obama's excessive executive power and willingness to ignore the constitution.

Yet many here expect and want the R House to go down fighting like Custer. The problem with that approach is that the cards that Boehner has are not pretty, and will work better with verbal window dressing like "flexibility" and "will look at all offered legislation". In short he needs to look good publicly and be tough privately.

[jpsb]

He is holding 5 Aces, just let the deal made with Obama, to raise the debt ceiling, as passed and signed by Obama, go thru. Obama gets his taxes and we get spending cuts. What’s wrong with that? Once again the GOP is going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.