I don’t believe him.
I think he’s got it just about right.
I also liked this exchange between Paul Gigot and Dan Henninger during the Journal Editorial Report on FNC earlier today:
GIGOT: Dan, do you think the — we’ve got the debt ceiling debate coming forward here and that’s a big, big fight.
HENNINGER: Right.
GIGOT: Does the victory — I think you called it a victory that Boehner got on this current budget. Does that increase the momentum and political capital on the debt ceiling fight and the Ryan budget?
HENNINGER: I think it does very much. What John Boehner proved here, I think, was that he can govern. It’s important for the general public to think that someone in Washington can govern.
Now the debt ceiling is going to be a huge challenge because I think it’s a bit of a political distraction.
Having said that, I do not object to the people on the right or the Tea Party pushing all the time against the Republicans in Congress to keep cutting spending. These are politicians, after all. They’ll back slide eventually. They’ll break your heart eventually.