John Boehner

I just received a telephone call from a young woman alleging to be calling on behalf of Speaker Boehner, asking me to call my Congressman to complain that Obama is about to shut down the government early next month, and to insist that he not do so.

Knowing the press, the Republicans may get away with framing this shut down as Obama's fault. It didn't work with Clinton, but Clinton knows how to frame the issues much better than Obama, and the press seems to far more in the Thuglicans' pocket than it was the last time.