GOP ExHouse Majority Leader Tells His Pals in Congress 'This is Not Going to End Well for You'

  
As I posted yesterday this action by the Republicans  in Congress is an “Idioatic” idea. They are shooting the nation in the pocket book and reputation and 'themselves in the foot’ and will obtain nothing good for “NO ONE.”
The exception to this might be for the President and Democrats if they don’t cave in to this small band of Political hijackers.

Below is a man I can’t stand because I remember this closet case on the shut down under Clinton. Never thought I would be quoting him, but this is one of the few times that he is right.  As conservative Republican that he is it seems he learnt something from that close down.  Now he tells his pals “You were doing well but something happen on the way to the dog house.” he is got this flair of walking  and talking.  I remeber when he called another Congressman right from the chamber while speaking, he called Democrat Barney Frank "Barney Fag”

Well here is big mouth:
 Richard K. Armey 

But something happened on the way to the dog house. They found their reprieve from the most unlikely source: Congressional Republicans rode to their rescue by changing the subject. They made Majority Leader Reid an offer he could easily refuse. Either the Senate Democrats could accept continued government spending at House-set levels, lower than the Senate levels (which they had already done), and accept total defunding of Obamacare (which they had already said they would never do), or they could reject it—in which case the government would just “shut down.”

 This must have seemed like pennies from heaven to the Democrats. All they had to do was refuse to be “blackmailed” by this “extreme” and “irresponsible” demand, and the news of the day would turn from Obamacare, where Democrats were big-time losers, to a government shutdown—something that always hurts Republicans. (If there was one thing we Republican learned in the ’95-’96 shutdown, it’s that presidents don’t get blamed for government shutdowns… Republicans do.)

Just say no, and they were off the hook. Not a bad deal. So they did just that. Frankly, it is a change that is working out quite well for them.

What about the Republicans, split internally between the Tea Party and the more moderate members? They are in a state of serious internecine conflict. Tempers are short and patience is running thin. Having impaled themselves on the wrong demand, they cannot now make new, more attractive demands with credibility. The Democrats need only retain the posture of being sad and disappointed while they say “no,” and the Republicans will remain stuck on their own stick.

The Republicans have successfully snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory, and the Democrats will let them live with it until such time that they sue for peace. This is not going to end well for Congressional Republicans. But, while the pain is inevitable, the suffering is optional. There is a way to turn this around and Speaker Boehner is just the guy to do it.

 John Boehner need only rise to the level of his ability and to the stature of his office. He should bring a continuing resolution to the floor with House-level funding, a one-year delay of the individual mandate and a proviso that any Obamacare exemption granted to any entity must be available to all. This last proviso not only deals with the congressional exception, but also highlights and puts an end to President Obama’s cherry-picking cronyism.

The Speaker should then allow the Democratic minority to have an amendment (in the form of a substitute in accordance with regular order in the body). If Minority Leader Pelosi offers a clean continuing resolution, it will most likely prevail, and the House Republican ordeal will be over. They can then get back to serious work—and if they have learned the lesson to not start a fight they can’t win, they may just avoid the same debacle on the debt limit later this month.

Finally, Speaker Boehner will, if he does this, demonstrate that he has the stature of the office and will remain Speaker for so long as he desires.

  TIME