"What the tea party & Boehner didn't reckon is that Obama & the Democrats are done being intimidated by the use of...

"What the tea party & Boehner didn't reckon is that Obama & the Democrats are done being intimidated by the use of extra-constitutional means to extort concessions that the right can't win through normal legislative & electoral methods…Obama doesn’t just want to get past this crisis. He wants to win. And win he must, because victory is essential to re-establishing constitutional governance, a phrase that the tea party ought to understand."
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_tea_partys_last_stand_20131006/