John Boehner is willing to crash the US economy in order to keep his job. Has there ever been a more reckless and incompetent House Speaker who could allow such a thing to come to pass?

wilwheaton:

There are 200 or so Democrats in the House of Representative who would end this shutdown right now, but John Boehner wants to pretend that they do not exist.

John Boehner is denying tens of millions of Americans their right to representation in the House of Representatives. He wants to pretend that the only vote he can pass must come with united GOP support from a crowd of loons I wouldn’t count on to be able to order a pizza. This plan depends on your denial that 205 House Democrats exist.

Because GOD FORBID a dozen or so House Reps have to stand up to the Tea Party and risk a primary. God Forbid Boehner or some other “moderate” Republican has to stand out and be the voice of reason in this lunacy. Cowards, each and every one of them, and rather than confront the tea Party the cowardly bulk of the House GOP to a man goes along with the lunacy and brinksmanship, all so they can extract more hostage demands.

Boehner is allowing a group of people who represent less than 18% of Americans to potentially tank the global economy, to say nothing of how much people are hurting right here in America because of this. I just … this has to stop. They have to send the Tea Party back to the lunatic fringe where they belong.