Grab some popcorn. From National Journal:
In private, Boehner has grown tired of what he dismissively calls the "know it alls who have all the right answers." Boehner knew what a defeat would mean - a more costly spending bill - one that provides more emergency disaster relief and contains fewer budget offsets.It's hard to know how much of this is real and how much is Boehner misinformation. Still, it does seem awfully fun.
As one top leadership aide said: "Boehner is more than willing to accept a short-term defeat to achieve a longer-term goal." What's the longer term goal? It appears to be showing Republicans who oppose leadership that divisions not only create low-level political chaos and bad media coverage, their undermine GOP policy goals by increasing the leverage of the Democratic minority.
To that end, House leadership aides said leaders were leaning towards moving a clean CR with Democratic votes in order to get in through the Senate and allow Congress to recess in time for its scheduled break next week.
