house spoker john boehner needs to decide whether he wants to be remembered as an effective leader or a befuddled hack. so far i'm afraid it's the latter. boehner's performance last week was aer isry of comic prattfalls culminating friday in a stinging rebuke from the house republicans he leads. by any standard the whole situation is beyond ridiculous. the government of the world's leading military and economic power cannot be funded on a week-to-week basis. there's no earthly excuse for this sorry spectacle and no one to blame but boehner. there were people, gene as you know talking the other day after we couldn't get a real vote on extending dhs funding, asking whether he should keep his job. >> uh-huh yeah. well look if you or i were john boehner we would be asking if we wanted to keep that job, right, because you do have to deal with a fractious majority. he's not the first speaker of the house to have to deal with rebellious members who want to do something other than what