for that. his goals are not the tea party s goals. on some level, it would make sense if he is not speaker. the tea party members are wary of boehner, it s like paul ryan or someone they think is a try conservative that was a speaker, the president could talk to that person and think they represent the congressional percent boeh ner has to check to defund obamacare. the republicans said, no, not good enough for us. boeh ner, tip o neil, o neil was leading the democrats. boeh ner does not lead. he is led by them. why not telegraphing whether you are going in being honest allows people to understand where you are coming from. from the president s perspective, he d much rather deal with john boehner or conservatives for that reason. they fell they can have a discussion even though everything blew up when they were trying to come to this