[Paladin2]

"Boehner is willing to lose a pawn for a queen. I’m not sure about the rest.” "

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

Sometimes kicking the can down the road puts the kicker in the ditch.

[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.

[paul51]

The seeds were sown when Boner came up with the Fiscal Cliff deal in the first place. Sometimes kicking the can down the road puts the kicker in the ditch.

Exactly

[betty boop]

"Boehner is willing to lose a pawn for a queen. I’m not sure about the rest.”

If Boehner is willing to lose a pawn to protect his queen, then it seems to me he is acknowledging that 0bama is playing Chess. (And personally, I do believe he is entirely correct about that.) Meanwhile, a whole lot of other folks — in Congress and out — think the game being played here is Checkers.

We're skunked either way: Go over the fiscal cliff, or have the Congress buckle to the president — and then we still get to go over the fiscal cliff.

My view FWIW is that Boehner is trying to do a valiant job in impossible conditions. He probably will not prevail. But I thank him for trying.