Saving Face

Charlie Cook:
“Too many Democrats seem to be enjoying this debacle, appearing to view
the fight as a terrific political opportunity to inflict some real
damage on the Republican Party. It certainly looks as if Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid, a boxer in his early years, thinks he has his foot
on the throat of House Speaker John Boehner and the GOP and is not
interested in taking it off.”

“Somehow, though, Obama and congressional
Democrats have to give Republicans, at least the ones who want to
resolve this–and I would put Boehner in that category, regardless of
what he has said in recent days–a place to land, some way to get to
yes.”