Actually it's more like telling Picket's men to kill each other.
“Actually it’s more like telling Picket’s men to kill each other”
Ha! That’s a good one, but that’s about right. The McConnell plan is a lock in the Senate. Easily 70 votes. The question will be whether Boehner decides to bring it to a vote in the House, or if he decides to fight. And I think we all know what he’ll do there. Once Boehner places the McConnell plan before the House, with all the sad language, and “tough vote” garbage that he said when he voted for the Bailout, it’ll pass, probably with 250-300 votes. Nearly all the Democrats will vote for it. The RINOs will go for it, and that will be that.
The question at that point is, what does the GOP caucus do? The GOP freshman will know at that point they’ve been sold out. I don’t know what the rules of the House are, but it seems the only logical step then for the Tea Party freshman will be to “kill” Boehner, if you will. To oust him as Speaker. It will be clear as day at that point you have GOP House members who want to clean up the mess, and you have the leadership who wants to do business as usual, go to cocktail parties and play golf. If the GOP/Tea Party members don’t revolt against the leadership, I would think the GOP will lose the House in 2012, and not retake the Senate. The only chance we would have to defeat Obama is if we have a candidate who aggressively runs against both Obama and the GOP.