Love the words, Eugene

Eugene Robinson scoffed at Speaker Boehner's indignance when the President used the same negotiating tactic on him that the House Republicans used over and over again last year.  I.e., their idea of a compromise was making the President do it the way they wanted.  They passed bills that were ludicrous, and then feigned aghastness when the Senate and the President called them what they were, i.e., ludicrous.

So here's what Gene said, in "Boehner plays a weak hand":

" “The president’s idea of a negotiation is, roll over and do what I ask,” Boehner groused.

Hmmm. Where do you imagine the president might have learned this particular bargaining
technique? Might his instructors have been Boehner’s own House Republicans, who went so
far as to hold the debt ceiling for ransom — and with it, the nation’s full faith and
credit — in order to get their way?"

That is so true, Eugene.  So true.  Appallingly so.