D-Day For U.S. And Boehner

Posted by | October 16, 2013 09:47 | Filed under: Contributors Opinion Politics Stuart Shapiro Top Stories


D-day could stand for decision-day, default-day, or it’s traditional meaning, dooms-day.  Later today, the Senate will reach some kind of deal to avoid default and reopen the government.  Then, as I posted last month the defining moment of John Boehner’s term as Speaker of the House will occur:

“Whether Boehner abandons the Tea Party and loses his Speakership, or abandons the best interests of most of the country and loses his party the majority, his days as Speaker are limited.”

What’s it gonna be?

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Copyright 2013 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.