I made the mistake of piling on him earlier when I should have waited for the outcome.
My prayers are up for him today. I hope he stands firm.
Mostly, we need to be prepared for the following:
“An agreement was reached after Speaker Boehner agreed to tax revenue increases in a huge victory for President Obama.”
Boehner has been offering revenue increases from day one. Be careful how you react to this news, because the increases will be from presumption of growth. GDP increases increase tax revenue with no change to anyone’s rates. It will be a crushing defeat for Obama, but the media will never report it as such.
It is the spending cuts that will matter, and Boehner isn’t backing down on those. FINALLY, the GOP has in Ryan someone who understands the budget and is there to cut, not get re-elected. He’s not willing to allow cuts from future growth curves to be called cuts.
That was not a mistake.
Without the pressure and electoral threats, serious electoral threats, from the TEA Party voters, Boehner would willingly, gleefully, orgasmically, capitulate to the leftists, on every issue, on every slight bone of contention. Then he would cry for the cameras.
For every Republican male in D.C., someone on the communist left has a handful or a whole box full of compromising photographs, drunk or drugged or sober, with hookers, twinkies, little kids, or something worse.