It seems like House Speaker John Boehner is over it. He's over being in the middle of the pissing contest between the Tea Party and mainstream Republicans and Democrats and the American public. He's just going to drink bourbon and say "fuck it".

Yesterday, the House shockingly passed a clean debt limit increase that's good until March of next year. The last time this happened without a sweeps week worth of high drama was probably back when Nancy Pelosi wielded the gavel:

With just 28 Republicans voting for it, you know that John Boehner doesn't care anymore. He commented:

I saw on the news last night Boehner singing "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" as he walked away from a podium after announcing the vote. That, the Mother Theresa joke, and the decision to give most of his party's members in the House his middle finger shows that he's just done with it all.

Maybe Boehner did the math and realized that it would pass if he gave the Dems what they wanted, but wouldn't if he had to rely on his own party:

If the Republicans somehow manage to maintain control of the House after the election later this year, it seems pretty certain that John Boehner won't be the Speaker anymore, even if he wanted it (and it doesn't seem like he does). It's a thankless task when a bill-killing segment of your own party throws a wrench into any possibility of compromise. Whoever takes his place is certainly going to have an uphill battle.