[kabar]

I read it when it was published in the WP yesterday. It was a lengthy article. Rush can't figure out why it was released and that the NYT will be doing an article on it as well.

It was fairly obvious to me why the liberal MSM is doing it. They are trying to sow seeds of discord among Reps, especially between the GOP and the Tea Party. Boehner was prepared to stab the Tea Party congressmen in the back and raise taxes. It showed how craven and corrupt the GOP House leadership is and that they can't be trusted to do the right thing. Instead, it is business as usual.

Articles like this are meant to dispirit the Tea Party movement, which worked long and hard in the 2010 midterms to toss the Dems out. Now we learn that John (Benedict Arnold) Boehener still doesn't get it and will not fight for TP basis principles.

[Kansas58]

I am often unhappy with Boehner.
However?
The fact is, Boehner DID expose Obama as a liar and a fraud, in this debt limit debate.
Strategy is important.
PR is important.
Boehner could “die” on the Tea Party hill, of NO Negotiations!
However, since Boehner DID try to negotiate, Obama has been exposed as a fraud and a liar.
If you were in Boehner’s place?
Obama and the MSM would have gotten the story they wanted:

“Poor, heroic Obama vs a ‘do-nothing’ Congress”!!

[Mouton]

Bingo, we have a winner. Exactly, what they are reporting is exactly what happened...so he went on TV and castigated the GOP after a deal had been reached. The end result is he could not lose in the media from that point on. The GOP had already ceded victory and stabbed the tea party in the back, one more time, plus he knew he was going to get what he wanted. What was Bonehead now going to do, go back on his word and say no deal we are not raising taxes?

[DManA]

Boehner was prepared to stab the Tea Party congressmen in the back and raise taxes.

I remember the discussion about this at the time. There were people who saw it as Boehner calling Obama's bluff. Seems like that is exactly what happened and Obama folded and covered up his humiliation by lying. Seemed like he'd gotten away with it until now.