[Free Vulcan]

Maybe there’s a strategy here, but Boner caves too much to believe that for sure. He’s really telegraphed about not wanting a shutdown and I think that weakened his position from the get go.

[princeofdarkness]

If I was a professional star athlete and had John Boehner as my agent to negotiate for me, I'd be in big trouble. He would probably take the first low ball offer from the owner and say “it's the best deal we could get”.

[princeofdarkness]

I understand about Reagan ‘s admonition about Republicans complaining about getting 75 or 80 percent of a bill passed and not being happy with the results. However, JB did not negotiate well. He should have started from the $100 million he promised and worked his way down to 70 or 80 percent. Instead we ended with at best 40 percent of the original goal.