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[winterbadger]

from the BBC

At a press conference, [House of Representatives Speaker] Boehner conceded the House's failure to take up the tax bill was "not the outcome that I wanted".

He admitted that "God only knows" how the cliff would be avoided but Republicans would keep working on a plan to protect families and small businesses.

He added: "We only run the House. Democrats continue to run Washington."

Bwuh? Mr Speaker, *your* party controls the body that sets spending legislation. *You* run Washington, at least as far as budgeting goes. Don't try to lay this off on anyone else.

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[wcg.livejournal.com]

His party is not entirely his party. He has a big insurgency there that would like to get rid of him, and might possibly like to just secede from the union too. While he does command a majority vote within his party, it's far from all the Republican members.