Ted Cruz gloated while John Boehner cried. Boehner, the embattled Establishment Republican Speaker of the House and unabashed Bush presidential partisan, threw in the towel today in a predictably tearful press conference where he announced he would resign in a month, at the end of October, both as Speaker and as a member of Congress.
The scene at his announcement was maudlin and surreal as press camera shutters exploded in a frantic and opportunistic cacophony of clicks during the tearful portion of the Speaker's comments.
Why did Boehner resign? Undoubtedly he plans to force through a spending bill containing funding for planned parenthood, raise the debt ceiling, and stiffly resist the hard right's efforts to block these measures and shut down the government. He obviously did not want to face a likely serious challenge to his leadership as a result of such action. Maybe he feared he might even be successfully ousted as Speaker for those efforts, and took action now to avoid such humiliation.
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