[sickoflibs]

RE :”Boehner was just giving the Tea Party caucus what it wanted. He knew it would fail and probably helped it to fail. Thus, he weakens the conservatives and diminishes their influence”

Very good analysis. I thought of that too,

He intended to show Rs that shutdown was fools folly, now any future ones will be crushed. To be fair, Bohner is not cut out for these types of bloody fights.

Look, Newts(Dole) 1996 surrender was very similar to this one by Bohner(McConnel) and for practical reasons it was later spun as a big victory over Clinton, I been lectured here many many times how Clinton caved.

That fairy tale was used recently.

Maybe the same will happen to this one some day,

[dfwgator]

He intended to show Rs that shutdown was fools folly, now any future ones will be crushed. To be fair, Bohner is not cut out for these types of bloody fights.

He's definitely not a "Wartime Consigliere."