"The most pitiful part of what’s happening right now isn’t the cave itself, which was predictable since day one of the quixotic “defund” effort, but the fact that they’re going to drag it out another day or two to the bitter end purely for theatrical purposes. There’s a 99 percent chance that Reid will reject whatever emerges tonight from the House, leaving Boehner to float a clean debt-ceiling hike tomorrow and let Pelosi and the Democrats bail him out, but in order to marginally reduce the upset among grassroots conservatives, he’s going to push this to the last possible moment. That means passing — hopefully — one more House bill to show that he really did try to get something in return for raising the debt limit, even though what he and House Republicans are now asking for barely qualifies as 'something.'”
Or, as I wrote a fortnight ago:
Explain to me precisely how the GOP is supposed to force the Democrats to give up an Unholy grail they chased for over seventy years and moved hell and Earth to shove down the country’s collective gullet from the narrow base of just the House of Representatives; and explain to me exactly why the Tea Party would entrust a mission that requires such herculean testicular fortitude to precisely the people they accuse of most conspicuously lacking it.
Join this desperately needed expectation management seminar at 6PM Eastern/3PM Pacific. And be prepared to take copious notes.
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