A reader tries to get into the Speaker’s head:
I believe Boehner is looking towards the debt-ceiling, which he recognizes as potentially catastrophic. He has said more than once that he “will not risk the full faith and credit of the federal government,” and I actually believe him.
Right now he is letting the cabal of far-right nuts slowly hang themselves while at the same time maintaining wacko-bird cred. When it comes time to either raise the debt ceiling or go over the brink, I predict that Boehner, having exposed the true insanity of the crazies, will suspend the Hastert Rule and let the debt ceiling be raised in a bill that includes the McConnell Rule as permanent law. This way he truly breaks the Tea Party fever, keeps his Speaker-ship via grateful Democrats and sane Republicans, and goes down as the hero of the whole debacle.
And then I woke up.
The Dish 