The Coming Boner Cave

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YALTA In Our Time On Monday afternoon, about eight hours before the government shutdown began, House Speaker John Boehner was asked whether he would consider passing a "clean" continuing resolution -- that is, a measure to fund the government without attachments that defund, delay, or limit Obamacare. "Is the clean CR off the table?" asked a reporter. "Is that not going to happen?" "That's not going to happen," said Boehner. Fast forward to 1:15 a.m. Tuesday - Boehner and House GOP leaders walked to the microphones and held a news conference that lasted all of 73 seconds. After Boehner's opening statement, a reporter asked, "Will you permit a vote on a clean CR?" Boehner's response, in its entirety: "We are hoping that the Senate will take our offer to go to conference and let us resolve our differences." Boehner said nothing about "not going to happen" or "don't see that happening." Instead, he sidestepped the "clean" resolution question entirely. [Full] And this moves inexorably forward to its natural, predictable, and even scripted? outcome. Settled behind closed doors in a conference of Senate Democrats and copacetic House GOP.  Obamacare will officially be welded into our law book; never, ever, to be removed. Ever. This is the signature moment that sends us down the road to serfdom.  You know what?  I'm at the ideal age.  Old enough that age will outstrip medicine's ability to prolong it anyway, but still spry enough to heft an M-1 if things perk-up in the next few years.

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