he did warn them that they will quickly lose leverage in the debate as the country grows closer to the Aug. 2 debt default deadline and Wall Street and business leaders pressure them to cut a deal.
You only have a weak hand if you think you have a weak hand.
This is politico talking. They wrote the article and they controlled how they presented the material.
You could easily read the quote as meaning Boehner was warning them it’s going to get tougher as the deadline looms, not easier, to hold against tax increases and phony cuts (that never happen), to prepare them, to buck them up for the fight.
I say politico deliberately manipulated this material trying to portray Boehner as weak.
It worked on you.
It rolls off me like water off a duck’s back.