Les républicains sur le point de se livrer pieds et mains liés

Inconfortable le siège de John Boehner aujourd'hui... Il est sur le point de demander à la Chambre de voter sur un compromis négocié au Sénat par les leaders républicains et démocrates. La Chambre pourrait bien favoriser ce compromis si les démocrates sont appuyés par une faction de républicains. Après avoir exigé beaucoup au début des négociations, les républicains sont sur le point de repartir avec les mains presque vides et une image à rebâtir auprès de la population.

 ""I don't envy the position Speaker Boehner has been in but to allow it to come up for a vote and to get it resolved on behalf of the nation," Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) said Wednesday on CNN. Even if it lacks GOP support? "I know he's been in a difficult position but we're at the time when we have to get it done," she said, "so I believe that he needs to bring it up for a vote."

The move would be a total surrender for Republicans, which had demanded a defunding of Obamacare (or at least a dismantling of it) to fund the government and a grab-bag of conservative goodies to lift the borrowing limit ahead of a Thursday deadline. The shutdown that took place on Oct. 1 has badly damaged the GOP's standing among voters, multiple polls show.

 Remarkably, the leader of one of the conservative advocacy groups who goaded the GOP into the dead-end shutdown fight over Obamacare -- against leaders' better instincts -- acknowledged that the law won't be repealed while Democrats control the White House and Senate.

 "Well, everybody understands that we'll not be able to repeal this law until 2017," Michael Needham, the CEO of Heritage Action, said Wednesday on Fox News. "We have to win the Senate and win the White House. Right now it is clear that this bill is not ready for prime time. It is clear the bill is unfair."

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