The Tea Party won’t take yes for an answer. Even as the President caves in to their debt-ceiling demands, the Speaker of the House comes out like a ventriloquist’s dummy and demolishes the deal they were making.
“I have decided,” John Boehner harrumphs, “to end discussions with the White House and begin conversations with the leaders of the Senate in an effort to find a path forward…
“The president is emphatic that taxes have to be raised. As a former small businessman, I know tax increases destroy jobs.”
The Speaker’s lips are moving, but clearly Eric Cantor is pulling the strings for the House’s class of 2009, which has put Boehner into a box with no room for negotiation of any kind.
Barack Obama shows his anger: “Can they say yes to anything?…I have been left at the altar a couple of times now.”