Source:Democratic Rapid Response– Speaker of the House John Boehner (Republican, Ohio)

“DNC: How can John Boehner listen to the will of the American people if he can’t follow his own rhetoric?”

From Democratic Rapid Response

As I’ve already said about this before:

“I wouldn’t say that the Tea Party House government shutdown is a political suicide mission, because this plan (if you want to call it that) doesn’t even seem to have a mission, or even a pilot. It’s more like drunk people at a pool with a group of them going up on the high dive, blindfolded, and one of them falls off and never makes it to the water. And that’s assuming that House Republicans are politically suicidal to go through with this. Or, are they just doing this for their right-wing-populist base and trying to tell them that they’re doing whatever they can to try to end the Affordable Care Act. (Also known as ObamaCare)”

From FRS FreeState

See, even Speaker John Boehner the top Republican in the United States believes that attaching so-called ObamaCare language, to a government funding bill and risking a government shutdown is a bad idea, at least at one point. And Speaker Boehner might still believe this is a bad strategy but is too weak to do anything about it and is just a Speaker with the title, but without the authority to do anything about it right now.

Let’s be real: the House Republican Leadership is not in charge of the House Republican Conference and certainly not in charge of the House of Representatives. But the Tea Party Caucus and their most radical members are trying to defund or repeal the Affordable Care Act at all costs. And that John Boehner is not much more than their puppet right now until they see him as no longer useful and perhaps find someone else to do their bidding for them.