Can't Quit Hitting The Sauce

The mighty Tea Party has feet of clay, and nobody's more clay-colored than Orange Julius as the House GOP picks up their payroll tax cut and unemployment benefit extensions ball and goes home for the holidays.





The Tea Party drinks your smoothie, John. They drink it up.

Obama insisted today that the only path to continuing the tax break past its Dec. 31 expiration is for the House of Representatives to send him a two-month extension passed by the Senate. At the White House today, he blamed a “faction” of Republicans for blocking the bill by including extraneous issues.

Meanwhile, Boehner and the Republican-controlled House pressed ahead with their plan. The House voted 229-193 to reject the Senate bill and insist on a year-long extension of the tax cut. Boehner, an Ohio Republican, then chose eight House Republican negotiators and demanded the Senate name lawmakers to attend formal talks.

“There’s no reason we can’t do this,” Boehner said at a news conference.

Actually there is, Johnny. And it's called "You have no control over your caucus anymore." They're over you. You're irrelevant, you can't deliver a deal, you have no clout on the Hill, and you're a joke.

In other words, you're everything in the actual leadership failure category that you choose to constantly project on to President Obama. Tell you what, call up Nancy Pelosi and ask her how to do your job, because in about 13 months, she will be doing your job.

So now, in just over a week, 160 million Americans are going to take a hit in their paychecks because John Boehner is the most incompetent person in Washington. And that's a government that includes Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul.

Brian Beutler pieces together the implosion of Boenher's career here, because let's face it, after this, it's over.

(Pic courtesy of Magic Love Hose over at Matt Osborne's place, original drawing of Boehner here...and speaking of Matt, give to his year-end donation drive and Fill The Inkwell, will you?)