From the article: "And so here we are today, on the cusp of Republicans being forced to repudiate their Reaganite legacy"....

To repudiate Reagan is to disavow the difference better the libs and us. "If salt has lost it savor", as Scripture tells us. "what good is it other than to be trampled upon by our feet"?

To repudiate Reagan is to give up on conservatism itself so that we are indistinguishable from the enemies of liberty and freedom!

John Boehner has the toughest job in Washington, bar none. He is going to be unable to satisfy all the elements in the party. I´m not sure who could do a better job in the current situation.

Obama wants the 3% rate increase on the $200,000+ because that´s where the small and medium sized republican business owners are. The offer of a million plus socks it more to the left.

Obama wants to keep Boehner in a constant lose/lose situation to implode the gop.I honestly don´t now who I´d pick to be speaker,I don´t see where Ryan would be any better.

Obama wants the cliff for political reasons,he couldn´t care less about the health of the country and he´s scared of his base.

The drunk with the spray mulatto camouflage matching the queen Ø´blow the blamer´s gave us a conclusive interview at Jake´s Bar an´ tan saloon early this pm.
It was mostly unintelligible but the gist of the interrogation seemed to center on it´s fear of water and clarity.
We did note a number of low life lobbyist shoveling dough into it´s rice bowl and john kerry
( it served with Hanoi jane and fellow traveler propagandist) smarming close by. Da sasquatch was seen waving it´s furry paws menacingly. The curtsying bath house queen Ø´blo the blamer was rumored to have been in the john, but it´s imam spokes creature declined to reveal which one. Le jaun willyms declines to speak.

To paraphrase walter kommiecrite, “We will have a full report as soon as Pravda, al Qaeda Post and the Iranian Imam Direct (IID) send their clear and balanced talking points.

I have read No. 4´s rant carefully and find it to be gibberish. Perhaps its meaning is too deep for my limited intelligence.

As to the article, I agree with the author and have been saying much the same thing every chance I get.

#2, Respectfully, Mr. Boehner can easily satisfy the elements in his party (GOP)--but he is unable to articulate and satisfy we Americans and patriots of the conservative persuasion--pardon my redundancy.

Vote the (GOP) bums out.

Just as in quite a few other articles from Power Line, it just doesn´t ring conservative enough to me. He sounds like William Kristol.....

Can we make a new word out of RINO and NEOCON?

Thank you poster #2.

Seems we have many who insist it´s their way or no way. This has gotten us no where.

Boehner´s job is a piece of cake. He´s been in the Beltway many years and in 2012 didn´t have to worry about being primaried or losing to a dem. as he ran unopposed. Perhaps the dems. like him too. He was happy in the minority, didn´t ask for the new people we gave him in Nov. 2010 and told them to sit down and shut up. Without blinking in 2012 he kicked some of the new people off committee assignments. We gave him people to defund ObamaCare but he likes ObamaCare so he stuck the bill in committee where it stayed for over a year. After the Nov. 2012 election, he gave detailed accounts to the NY Times about how House GOP were subdued and beaten by Obama´s great win, and how his job now is to give Obama what he wants. The debt thing is only happening now because Boehner decided last year to postpone talks til after Obama´s re-election. If Romney had won, he would´ve brought some different people in. New voices would´ve brought scrutiny on Boehner, perhaps pressing him to demand Obama pass a budget before engaging in talks. As it is now, the NY Times writes that Boehner is the de facto head of the Repub. party and is viewed as sage counsel by underlings. So he´s anointed The Boss by the NY Times and under no pressure from Obama since they know they both like big gov.