The Day John Boehner Admitted He's Totally at a Loss

The Atlantic ^ | September 12, 2013 | By Molly Ball

[Oldeconomybuyer]

On Tuesday, after John Boehner’s last gambit to pass a government-funding bill ran aground in the face of a Tea Party revolt, a reporter asked the House speaker if he had any idea what he’d do next.

“No. Do you have an idea?” Boehner replied, according to Politico. “They’ll just shoot it down anyway.”

Boehner’s dilemma -- finding a way to satisfy the right wing of his caucus that doesn’t involve shutting down the government -- isn’t new. The debate rages in Washington over whether he has an impossible job or whether he’s just terrible at it, but it doesn't really matter. Throughout it all, as Congress lurches from crisis to crisis, he has always evinced a survivor’s weary optimism that this, too, shall pass. But now he is finally, totally, out of ideas.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Worst Speaker ever.

[Irenic]

He could consult with Putin....

[ExTexasRedhead]

Boner’s too busy looking for his gonads to do anything else, ya think? Both hands and a mirror probably wouldn’t help the eunuch.

[beethovenfan]

What Boner should do next is RESIGN!!

[Neidermeyer]

I know what he could do to make me happy.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I say leave it alone and then let it hit everyone...the Unions will kill Obamacare..why should we take the hit for something that the Unions will kill off.and let everyone —individuals—get the $$ hit.

[Third Person]

GTFO Boehner. Eunuch.

[Neidermeyer]

So how many decades will that take? and why don’t you think the unions won’t be exempted with their members given huge subsidies.. and how many more decades to re-create what we had...

[Huskrrrr]

[yldstrk]

Booener needs to quit reaching across the aisle

[Paladin2]

Boner needs to take a month off and get some remedial ecumacation regarding the founding of the nation.

[RIghtwardHo]

Agreed. What a grand buffoon.

[Mastador1]

He is ineffective, irresponsible, inept and totally lacking in support of the conservative ideals of the Republican party. Since he is at a total loss, let me assist him by recommending this, the most responsible course of action, resign. To paraphrase Dr. McCoy, Your career is dead John, dead!

[VRWC For Truth]

They can write thousands of pages of budget documents yet not strike one page from it. Hilarious.

[Resettozero]

He is ineffective, irresponsible, inept and totally lacking in support of the conservative ideals of the Republican party. Since he is at a total loss, let me assist him by recommending this, the most responsible course of action, resign. To paraphrase Dr. McCoy, Your career is dead John, dead!

That's all true, but doesn't he have such a trained, practiced mellifluous voice that makes it sound like he knows what he's doing when, of course, he surely does not? (He took speaking lessons, I suppose, when he was named to the all important second-in-line position to the Presidency, namely, THE SPEAKER OF THE WHOLE BIG HOUSE.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

You make good points...I just don’t think you can defund an existing law when we don’t have the presidency or the Senate.
and why aren’t the republicans hammering home a message of a simple, easy to grasp replacement plan of Obamacare?

BTW your screen name is terrific.

[Joe 6-pack]

"He could consult with Putin...."

Putin speaks in terms of strength. Boehner wouldn't understand a damn thing he said.

[Political Junkie Too]

Boehner’s dilemma -- finding a way to satisfy the right wing of his caucus that doesn’t involve shutting down the government and still appease the Democrats...

Fixed it.

-PJ

[Mastador1]

You are excluding his to greatest assets, his tan and ability to cry!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

All he has to do is pass a budget, not more of these CRs that kick the can down the road, minus funding for Obamacare.

If the Senate kills it, it's on them and Obama.

But the GOP sucks at messaging.