It’s nice of Denny Hastert to shoot out both of John Boehner’s knees. Without the Hastert Rule, there are already well in excess of the seventeen Republican votes that are needed to pass a clean continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government and end the shutdown.
Meanwhile, Republican governors are giving John Boehner no cover whatsoever. And Grover Norquist says that Ted Cruz “pushed House Republicans into traffic and wandered away.”
Meanwhile, Boehner is trying to talk up a revival of The Grand Bargain, but without prepping his side to accept revenue as part of the deal. The president has been rejecting that offer for three years now. Talk about desperation!
