[Timber Rattler]

The seeds were sown when Boner came up with the Fiscal Cliff deal in the first place.

BINGO! the whole scenario was set up by Boner, Reid, and McConnell, who were trying to circumvent the TEA Party freshmen in 2011. Boner therefore has been hoisted on his own petard.

[jpsb]

I usually agree with you, however the deal to raise the debt ceiling (fiscal cliff) was Obamas’ idea, iirc, not Boehners’.

[skinkinthegrass]

The seeds were sown when Boner came up with the Fiscal Cliff deal in the first place.
BINGO! the whole scenario was set up by Boner, Reid, and McConnell,
who were trying to circumvent the TEA Party freshmen in 2011.
Boner therefore has been hoisted on his own petard.what a fine web we weave...
0'Reid / 0'ButtCrack, really set SotH 0'Boehmer up.
(he should've foreseen it.)
Mitch "I Go / Get Along" 0'McConnell as flaccid as usual.
(he may have foreseen it; the history of Senate GOP)
*absolute disgust*
the Winners:
The Marxist Party /& the Establishment Bureaucracy