Two Very Good Reasons...

...the GOP is trying to purge John Boehner from his house leadership position, and replace him with this pliable, gun-confiscating wretch:

Boehner Demands Fed Identify Recipients of Loans

and

Boehner Pans Money For Autos

Who but the corrupt, the bought-and-paid-for, would oppose his first initiative. And who but a usurper would oppose his second? The thieves are just trying to cover their tracks in the first instance, and return to the scene of the crime in the second.

I'm not a Boehner cheerleader. I've expressed caution on the guy in the past.

The reason the Republicans blew it, and isn't it curious that neocons are partnering with socialists to claim the opposite, is because the base is sick and tired of being betrayed, and compromising further under the false promise of what's represented as political pragmatism, but what is actually surrender.