First Read: “The Tea Party folks who are clearly driving the shutdown/debt limit
trains likely won’t be pleased with any negotiation or compromise,
whether it’s over the president’s health-care law or a true compromise
over entitlements and the sequester. (Is there any deal that isn’t the
president 100% folding that can be sold to the Tea Party caucus? The
answer is probably no.) So if Boehner ultimately achieves a negotiated
compromise, he might find himself in the same Tea Party trouble he’s
trying to avoid.”
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