I guess you all think Boehner should soil himself in front of Obama over the possibility of defense cuts, so Obama can deny any domestic cuts.
Boehner made the right threat, the others are undercutting him. Of course the defense cuts are not desirable.
No. I think Boehner is the worst negotiator since the Native-Americans who sold Manhattan island for $14 in glass beads.
Entitlements have to be reformed. Yesterday.
Boehner had Obama agree to the chained CPI index that would have simply slowed the growth of Social Security. He and Obama were about $200 Billion apart 5 days before Christmas.
Then, Boehner shifts gears, and spends an entire week with his failed "Plan B" option that he could not even get the House Republicans to approve.
Then, he threw his hands in the air, (and given his past behavior in DC after hours) went home for Christmas and probably got good and toasted. When Dingy Harry Reid showed up at the 11th hour, he wanted to burn the whole house down rather than budge on Entitlements because that opportunity had now been lost (and Reid new it).
Where does this leave us now?
Defense is still being held hostage to this garbage, and Boehner wants to keep it that way.
He will not win Entitlement reform by threatening the Democrats with HUGE defense cuts and every other branch of government with lesser cuts.
That will only come if Boehner is willing to shut the government down, and I don't think he has the gonads to do it.