[kabar]

On that Sunday in July, Boehner, the old-school pol from Ohio, seemed willing to hash it out. He had met in private with the president and his aides many times. Their sessions were so sensitive — especially for the speaker, who was dealing with a House teeming with tea party rebels — that Obama’s aides were under strict orders to “protect Boehner” and not talk about his private entreaties. Obama liked Boehner; they got along well during the private sessions and a round of golf. But there was doubt in the White House as to whether the speaker could bring his party along. He “probably could not deliver a pizza,” was one administration aide’s skeptical assessment.

Cantor, a Virginian, was more closely aligned with the tea party wing. The fact that he was there, and had been involved since Friday, however reluctantly, was taken by the White House as an encouraging sign.

The tea party conservatives, who dominated the group of new House Republicans that gave the GOP a majority in the 2010 elections, were hellbent on preventing Obama from raising the legal limit on government borrowing — known as the debt ceiling — without deep spending cuts and a radical restructuring of expensive health and retirement programs. While its members had elevated Boehner to the speaker’s office, the tea party caucus, critical of Obama’s political agenda and elected to stop it, also proved to be Boehner’s biggest political challenge.

Notice that in these latest budget talks with the Reps, Cantor was excluded. Also, the Dems continue to demonize the Tea Party at every opportunity. They fear it more than anything else. It is one reason why they set up OWS, a truly manufactured, astroturfed organization.

[sam_paine]

With Reid holding the bag in the Senate and Obama owning the press, Boehner and Cantor never had a chance to make anything happen that would be Tea Party approved.

Because of the disunity, the dems know that the R house have no real power compared to theirs.

Keep in mind, Obama IS TRYING TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY! Hello?!?!?! Had Boehner let the debt limit breach, then Obama would have free-hand to completely unstring the economic foundations of the country and build it back in his socialist image.

Boehner and McConnell know this and I think are just trying to keep the ship afloat until a new captain can turn it around.

But there’s too many Tea Partiers and Paultards who agree with Obama that we ought to let old Columbia collapse and see what happens.

The Phoenix ain’t ever been described as a beautiful bird, you know.