Seriously, is anyone surprised?

After passing a clean debt ceiling increase, blubbering cry baby and colossal wimp John Boehner said, “It's a recognition that we don't have 218 votes. When you don't have 218 votes, you have nothing.”

John Boehner is like Civil War general George McClellan.  McClellan adored his Army of the Potomac so much he refused to use it for the purpose for which it was established.  Boehner was given a Republican majority in the House of Representatives in 2010.  Since then, he has always thought it better to husband his resources for the next battle than fight the one in front of him.

Is anyone surprised that Boehner abandoned the battlefield of ideas on the debt limit?  He could have held a series of votes to - at a minimum - get Dopes on record as opposing the XL Pipeline, restoring veterans benefits stripped by Paul Ryan’s budget deal and supporting a bailout of insurance companies necessitated by the most enormous of all government f&^k ups – Roberstcare.  He did none of that.  He retreated.  Run away and fight another day.  For Boehner, that day NEVER comes.

Another thing that is irritating abut Boehner is that he always saves his harshest criticisms for conservatives in his own party.  He never takes to the podium to bash a lying thieving senile old bastard like Harry the Roach Reid or the lawlessness of King Douche or  the incompetence of Grand Nan from San Fran Peloser in unmistakable terms that would be the lead on every 6 pm news broadcast.   “Nope.  I don’t have the votes, so I’m going to run away…again.”

I’m liking Rand Paul.  At least he will close with and engage the enemy.  When asked about the Republican war on women, Paul rejected the premise of the question and turned the tables asking how a party that embraces Bubba Billy Boy Clinton – a proven lying, philandering, groping, rapist of an ex-president - can say Republicans have a war on women.  If Republicans have a war on women, why are all the bodies on the Dope side?

If the Shrilldabeast run, the Republicans had better get someone like Paul who is willing to shoot back with deadly accuracy.