Boehner never had any intention sticking to the obamacare defund/delay game plan.
As soon as Reid tabled the House bills the RNC and NRSC should have carpet bombed all the vulnerable Senate Dems. Instead McConnell took a powder and now we are where we are.
It seems the Boehner/Cantor plan was to surrender last week but the kenyan wouldn’t accepted it. LOL. I can’t say I feel sorry for the beltway GOP leadership now. They deserve every bit of scorn they are getting.
I just read Republican elites saying that delaying Obamacare was never an option. That should have been the compromise, but Boehner negotiated with himself until he was past that and down to medical device taxes and Congressional staffers. Pathetic. Put the one year delay back on the table, and pass all the appropriations bills in regular order, and if the Dems won’t accept any of it, put defunding entirely back on the table, and if they won’t accept that, tough. Tell them we are happy to negotiate over Obamacare, and will meet you to discuss it, but here is the funding for the government, and you have 100 percent.
Republicans should just read back to Obama his own statement from 2006, when he was in the Senate:
In March 2006, then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., found the notion of raising the debt ceiling quite distasteful.
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure,” he said. “It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.”
Boner means “Surrender” in French.