Sen. 'Up'Chuck Schumer (D - NY)

“It is becoming clear that the path to a bipartisan budget deal may not go through the Tea Party at all. In order to avert a shutdown, Speaker Boehner should consider leaving the Tea Party behind and instead seek a consensus in the House among moderate Republicans and a group of Democrats.”

 

I have all kinds of problems with Boehner's leadership, but he can't possibly be stupid enough to take Chucky's advice.  He has to know by playing nice with "moderate Republicans" and "Democrats" Schumer means buckling to the whims of the Liberal nutters in Congress...The Speaker can't be this stupid, can he?

 

Heaven help us if he is, because the Republican Party will go the way of the Whig Party and the nation will suffer a fiscal stroke...Not that it's not going to have this stroke anyway, but at least it'll have a few extra years if the Democrats aren't allowed to define what is and is not a "bipartisan budget."

 

I have to admit, I like Chuck's moxy though.  He's throwing a Hail Mary, and knows the Republicans are almost infinitely weak-kneed when it comes to taking on the problem of huge government...But Boehner can't possibly be this stupid, can he?