This is Kabuki on the part of GOP House leadership. They know damned well the Senate, GOP leadership there or not, coming up with a budget “deal” means frigging NOTHING if they HOUSE does not accede to it.
I think it is too much of a FUBAR cluster to be kabuki. The Dems are running circles around the beltway GOP right now.
They are anything but real work and responsibility to the people that put them there. They rise in the ranks, get their seniority and they take their second-tier power willingly.
The only FUBAR related thing now is that fantastic group of 30-40 Congressman (young, pissed off Turks) where aren't there for the booty). Boehner can't get around them, but he can hit the airwaves with a “they (the Senate GOP) tied my hands, blah, blah blah)...
It is 100% Kabuki and they are playing it like a Stradivarius.