[Cicero]

Translation: “I would have folded sooner, but those damned Teabaggers managed to delay our surrender.”

[mojito]

Absolutely. Boehner confesses that he's more worried about pleasing Barry than anything else. It sounds like their relationship is real “cozy.”

[Venturer]

Exactly, it was a sellout from beginning to end. Boehner had already made the deal with Obama, and Ted Cruz came along, then Boehner was forced to go along with the farce.

Why else would Obama ask him what went wrong.

The deal was already cut.

[caww]