John Boehner le prisonnier du congrès

John Boehner vient tout juste d'être confirmé dans ses fonctions de speaker de la chambre, mais la victoire républicaine eux dernières élections de mi-mandat contribuera à mettre en lumière les divisions au sein de l'équipe républicaine. Boehner, comme ce fut le cas depuis quelques années, risque d'être régulièrement confronté aux radicaux de son parti, particulièrement les membres du Tea party. Majoritaires dans les deux chambres les républicains devront faire la preuve qu'ils peuvent être efficaces et ils ne pourront se limiter à l'obstruction. Beau pari pour Boehner...

 "Through it all, Boehner has been in charge, but never entirely in control, and he muddled along with a depressing cycle of legislative crises and shoestring salvations. A bargainer by nature saddled with members who didn’t want to bargain, he would negotiate and negotiate—only to have a big bloc of his conference emphatically reject almost any deal. Each time, Boehner would end up being bailed out by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell or House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who would cobble together enough votes to salvage a deal with Obama.

Still, Boehner survived, battered but intact. And today there is no other political leader in the country who owes so much of his success to sheer resilience and the capacity to endure repeated public humiliation with a shrug. That Boehner shrug—that “I’m just playing the cards I’ve been dealt,” nicotine-induced zen—drives his bargaining partners crazy, but it might have finally set him up to do bigger things, if he’s willing to take the risk. “He held things together, and now they are in a much stronger position,” says former Speaker Newt Gingrich, who ushered Boehner into the leadership two decades ago."

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