If Boner really wanted to he could keep the Hastert rule. There was never a doubt he was going to cave. The majority of House Republicans are opposed to doing this.
If they are opposed to it, why did they give him a standing ovation?
They knew he was going to cave when it came down the alleged wire. Had the majority of Republicans been able to come up with an alternate bill last night, things might have been different.....but I doubt it.
No matter what the House proposed, the Senate and Obama were going to reject it. They wanted to call the shots and did. They could have cared less if the country defaulted, in fact, it would have made it easier to bury the Repub’s.
We need to find more decent Conservative candidates to take the party back. Now is not the time to give up......now is the time to make plans.
Boehner actually did try to fight a little bit on this one. They need to go farther and start putting Tparty Conservatives in some of the leadership positions. What’s the worst that could happen?