Boehner? Boehner?

I wonder what's going through John Boehner's orange tinted, tear sodden head right about now.

Orange John is pretty much a classic pol.  More savvy than intelligent, he sees the angles without really knowing how they might eventually play out.

But he has to know that shutting down the government will be bad for the GOP.  Democrats and Independents pretty much both want to see a compromise that keeps government funded.  Republican do not.  It runs around two-thirds of Democrats and Independents want a compromise and a little more than half of Republicans do not.

And the crazy assed Republicans who make up "the base" of a lot of these GOP House members want to see the government shut down more or less for good (as long as they keep getting their Medicare and Social Security).

If Harry "It's Not A Porn Star Name" Reid is to be believed, the sticking point are riders within the budget that will dramatically attack all spending on all family planning anywhere that a federal dollar might be seen and a desire to gut environmental protection.

It's not really about the budget at all, but about the screwed up priorities of the Wingnut Caucus.

If Boehner was really "courageous" and "serious", he could likely get a budget passed today.  All he would need is about a third of the GOP caucus and two thirds of the Democratic caucus.  Or even half and half.

But the GOP seems perfectly willing to sabotage both the operations of the government, the fiscal reputation of the United States and the economic health of the entire frakking country in order to prove that they can bully that Kenyan in the White House.  Because if Obama and Reid agree to some of the lunatic demands that Boehner brings from Louis Gohmert and Michelle Bachmann, they'll just change the demands.  Apparently that's happened already.

The shutdown is coming.  Not because America can't pay its bills, but because a bunch of Teatards want it that way.  And screw the rest of the country from feeling differently.