The Nightmare Scenario That John Boehner Fears the Most

As Scott Wong of The Hill reported Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner experienced a fitful night’s sleep last week, during which time the Ohio Republican had a nightmare about a “hand” that “came reaching, pulling,” and, ultimately preventing his dream-self from making a needed escape. “I was trying to get out and I couldn’t get out,” Boehner related.

A bad dream, eh? Ah, well, probably just one of those examples of sleep knitting up our raveled sleeve of care by subconsciously processing roughly remembered anxieties in order to purge them. Nothing to worry about. Unless, of course, it was a harrowing and prophetic vision of an inescapable future!

And, as Wong reports, maybe it is: “Boehner’s nightmare could become reality if House Republicans fail to rally around their nominee for Speaker in a floor vote set for Oct. 29.”

My, oh my. It seems like it was only a few weeks ago that Boehner, still feeling buoyant from Pope Francis’ visit to Congress, made the decision that his moment had come: Time to retire and pass the responsibility for supervising the House Republicans’ frequently fractious caucus into another member’s hands.

That meant that whatever the future held for the GOP in the House, it was going to happen without him. Or, maybe a better way of putting it — given some of his colleagues’ propensity for imagining the speakership as a position with vastly more power then it actually has — is that from Boehner’s perspective, whatever the future held, it was going to be somebody else’s problem. (Read more from “The Nightmare Scenario That John Boehner Fears the Most” HERE)

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