Politics has gone from being a game of chess to stud poker, and I don’t think Boehner is “up” to the challenge. Excuse the pun.
Please allow me to clarify your thinking:
Politics, for LIEberals (i.e., Democrats), has ALWAYS been a real life version of “Shootout at the OK Corral.” For them, politics is a deadly serious winner-take-all shootemup.
Politics, for Republicans, has always been nothing more serious than a chess game.
That is why Republicans (and the American people) have been losers for so long — they are playing a “game.”