Some Real High School Garbage Going On

Greg Sargent picks up on the GOP eating its own over the weekend, particularly stabbing current House Minority Leader John Boehner in the back and pumping up the stock of current GOP Whip Eric Cantor.

You know there’s serious disarray afoot among a party’s Congressional leaders when the principals and their staffs start leaking damaging info about each other, and that now seems to be happening among House GOP leaders.

Check out this nugget from Ben Pershing’s piece on increasing tensions among House Republicans. It appears that someone is trying to pin the blame for the House GOP’s politically-disastrous, numbers-free budget on John Boehner:

Privately, Cantor and the lawmaker tasked with writing the GOP budget, Rep. Paul D. Ryan, had urged the party to hold off going public until it could produce a finished product. Both men wanted a more detailed proposal with dollar figures that would make it a more defensible document. Boehner and House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence disagreed, hoping to counter as quickly as possible Democrats’ charge that Republicans are “the Party of No.” The result was a botched rollout and bad press.

And someone wants to shift the blame for the botched budget rollout away from Eric Cantor.

Boehner survived one attempt on his job after the election, but it's looking like Cantor's crew has declared "Game on!" and aren't waiting for 2010. Then again, if the contest if between the GOP as the Party of No and the GOP as the Party of Stupid Ideas, does it matter who wins?