John Boehner let the cat out of the bag on right-wing hater Laura Ingraham’s show:
BOEHNER: Well, first they want more. And my goodness, I want more too. And secondly, a lot of them believe that if we get past August the second and we have enough chaos, we could force the Senate and the White House to accept a balanced budget amendment. I’m not sure that that — I don’t think that that strategy works. Because I think the closer we get to August the second, frankly, the less leverage we have vis a vis our colleagues in the Senate and the White House.
Phrases like “playing with fire” don’t do this justice. Some people are using the phrase “economic suicide bombers” and I think it would be appropriate, really, although of course we will be the ones bearing the pain caused by their actions, mostly not the politicians themselves.
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