John Boehner got run over by his caucus
Walking home from the White House Shutdown eve.
You can say there's no such thing as too much bronzer,
But as for me and Barack, we believe.

He'd been drinking too much at his tea party,
And we'd begged him not to flea.
But he forgot his name in negotiations,
And he staggered out the door into his limousine.

When they found him Shutdown morning,
At the scene of the attack.
He had tea bags on his forehead,
And incriminating Cruz marks on his back.

Boehner got run over by his caucus,
Walking home from the White House Shutdown eve.
You can say there's no such thing as too much bronzer,
But as for me and Barack, we believe.

Gave me a nice laugh. Thanks

Someone should put that to music.

I was totally about to do that.

...he'll blow and suck anything and everything as long as he gets to keep his nice cushy office with the built in liquor cabinet. He's never been a leader and his caucus knows that...in fact they expect that so that he can easily be rolled and manipulated. No leader sends bill after bill to repeal Obamacare fully knowing it will fail. He's sucking up to those who keep him in power and he placates them with worthless gestures. The fact that the last two House sessions have been the least productive vs. all the legislation that happened in the previous 4 under Speaker Pelosi. The contrast couldn't be more stark...

. . . I think he's one and the same; maybe a bit more enamored of government (his speakership).

that might be a subject for debate among their throng, but the majority of Americans who were just subject to this shutdown stunt won't see any significant difference between the two.

it to be voted on and voted for it.

. . . that translates for most of us out here as teabagger republicans shut down the government. Boehner acting as head teabagger allowed it; practically encouraged it to happen.

The House leadership has bent over backward to accomodate and appeal to the tea crowd. He may well be a reluctant teabagger. He may well be a recalcitrant one. He may well be an incompetent one, but, his acquiescence and promotion of their agenda as Speaker makes him just as complicit for whatever harm was threatened.

You can't ignore that he had the votes for a clean CR at any time.

He only allowed it because he had to. So maybe... just because he didn't actually go over the edge he might escape that label, at least by the TPers themselves. But even if he's not considered one, he is too weak to stand up to them. Which is actually worse since it lets them run something as a minority.

Steve Benen! Historic Failure! All thanks to the self absorbed "laughing stock" tedbagger scruz and his ilk. thank the teakochs, john.

thank PS