Boehner just surrendered again--Useless jackass



Via The Hill

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday conceded House Republicans are playing a weaker hand on the debt limit following last fall’s government shutdown.

Boehner said the GOP has few good options for extracting concessions from a White House that refuses to deal.

“The options available continue to be narrower in terms of how we address the issue of the debt ceiling, but I’m confident we’ll be able to find a way,” Boehner said at a Tuesday press conference.

Boehner’s comments are just the latest indication that party leaders are stymied in the wake of last fall’s shutdown, which voters — and more recently the Speaker himself — have blamed on the GOP.

Ahead of a November election where Republicans are confident they’ll retain the House and win back the Senate, the party is giving every indication it wants to avoid another drawn-out fight over raising the $16.7 trillion borrowing cap that could endanger its electoral hopes.

“The Speaker has a good gauge as to what’s politically doable, and what’s not,” Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R-La.) told reporters Tuesday. “I think he’s been very clear in that we’re not going to go to brinksmanship on this, and roll the dice with the U.S. economy.”

Last fall, GOP leaders initially put together a GOP wish list in exchange for raising the debt limit. But that plan never received a vote — conservatives balked at the lack of spending cuts and preferred to focus efforts on attacking ObamaCare as part of the government shutdown fight.

In the end, Republicans agreed to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for next to nothing in terms of concessions from Obama.

With the White House yet again insisting it will not negotiate over the borrowing cap, Republicans acknowledge that outcome makes it difficult to try and ramp up demands yet again.

“Because of how that played out … the ability to try to push for something stronger than that this time is hard,” said Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.).
Figuring out a debt-limit strategy will be a top priority when House Republicans huddle at a private retreat on the Eastern Shore of Maryland beginning Wednesday night.

But the days of demanding dollar-for-dollar spending cuts, changes to entitlement programs or a host of major Republican priorities as concessions appear to be over.

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“The options available continue to be narrower in terms of how we address the issue of the debt ceiling..."

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Good Drunk Johnny. Then you should be able to focus on this narrow option for success and get it done.