Jonathan Chait : Boehner's Plan B was rejected in the U. S. House of Representatives - "Without Boehner’s fallback strategy, the bulk of his membership if left totally exposed to Obama’s withering January attack. "If they were hoping to fight it out with the president after the New Year, their hopes of victory look even fainter now."

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Excerpt from New York Magazine :

The Plan B meltdown exposes Boehner’s weakness among the craziest of his crazies, and may leave him less willing to incur their wrath. But incur it he will, either by making a last-minute deal with Obama, or next year, when a huge tax hike (and defense cuts) spring into effect. The existence of a blowback on the right has always been a given. The practical effect of the failure of Plan B is to make it harder for Boehner to execute the strategy the crazies want him to follow. (That is how crazy they are -- so crazy they can't even rationally connect their power to their own desired ends.)

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New York Magazine
Plan B Fails, Boehner Marches Toward Cliff
By Jonathan Chait
Friday, December 21, 2012


Plan B Fails, Boehner Marches Toward Cliff


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