[a fool in paradise]

I came across this article while perusing this one:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/05/the-boehner-for-speaker-whip-count/
The ‘Boehner for speaker’ whip count
By Aaron Blake
January 6 at 9:55 AM

At least 29 House Republicans would have to desert Boehner for him to lose another term as speaker.

But it’s also becoming evident that he’ll probably lose more votes this time around...

That 29 number, we would emphasize, is a minimum. Boehner needs a majority, so if some members don’t vote, Boehner’s threshold for winning will be lower than the usual 218 votes — as it was in 2013, when it was 214 votes. So if some of these Boehner opponents vote for nobody — as Labrador and Mulvaney did in 2013 — that hurts Boehner less.

Update: As Politico reports, at least 12 House Democrats are skipping the speaker vote to attend former New York governor Mario Cuomo’s (D) funeral. That increases the threshold for pushing Boehner to a second ballot to 35, making him even safer...

[cableguymn]

I was never very optimistic....

The fix is in folks. DC is against us. I am afraid nothing short of CW2 will fix this issue.