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From: zax	9/25/2015 11:23:26 AM
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The children of the right are unmanageable, LOL. John Boehner just sacrificed his career for the good of the Republican party By Chris Cillizza September 25 at 10:52 AM washingtonpost.com Choice snips: ... But, he owed his majority to a group of House Republicans elected in large part on their promise to stand up to leaders -- of both parties -- in Washington. Boehner spent the first few years of his speakership trying to play nice with that rump group -- insisting that what united them was far greater than what divided them. It didn't work. The first major defeat for Boehner authored by his own conference came in late 2012 on the " fiscal cliff" fight. Boehner tried to move a bill that would extend the current tax breaks for everyone making less than $1 million a year. Less than 24 hours after he unveiled his proposal, he had to admit defeat because the GOP votes simply weren't there. .... That vicious cycle did two things: (1) It revealed to anyone paying attention -- the White House, the Senate -- that Boehner had no real control over his members, and (2) it emboldened conservatives to begin making bigger and grander demands to extract their support. Read it all here: washingtonpost.com

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