"It's Not Easy Being Orange," Spluttered Speaker John Boehner, Who Turned Red with Rage

"It's not easy being orange," spluttered Republican Speaker John Boehner of the U.S. House of Representatives, as he turned red with rage. 

Actually, orange-American Boehner has been ridiculed often enough for his orange tan out of a bottle that he looks more normally tan now, and his blue eyes stand out as he screams, "Are you kidding me?"

Speaker Boehner was responding to Tea Party Republicans shutting down the government in response to Obamacare, and then just before the government reopened, one of them said, "'well, we never thought it would work anyway.'"

Somehow the quasi-theatrical "Are you kidding me?" seems inadequate to express Speaker Boehner's frustration with the Tea Party Republicans who took the government off the rails and shut it down for three weeks, costing the economy some $24 billion and costing one woman, who appeared on CBS News, a business at Yellowstone National Park, that she had nursed to prosperity for 10 years. She cried as Republican Ted Cruz read Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham" during his ridiculous filibuster (cue Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's "nuclear" option, ending the frequency of the Republicans' use of the filibuster).

Sen. Ted Cruz's bedtime story for her was the death of a dream come true: her small business selling treats to tourists visiting a major national park, Yellowstone, which was closed.

I wondered when Speaker Boehner would find his spine. He's been the recipient of many a Wall Street donation for years. What scares Wall Street now is the same thing that scares and frustrates Speaker Boehner. Quid pro quo isn't enough any more. The Tea Party can't necessarily be bought by the usual mainstream players on Wall Street. Tea Party Republicans aren't predictable. If only.

Mother Jones drew a map of the new players in its most recent issue. They're not the kind of Wall Street players you'd think of, like Goldman-Sachs or Citigroup. Guys like Tim Geithner, Obama's former Secretary of the Treasury, worked for Goldman-Sachs and then worked for the Obama administration. Geithner sacrificed Main Street to save Wall Street and kept doing it, just like Bush's Secretary of the Treasury, Hank Paulson, also from Goldman-Sachs. That's why the recovery has been so weak, and that's why so many people call Obama "Bush-Lite."

The Tea Party is funded by corporations like Amway, a family that includes Blackwater (Erik Prince appeared on "The Daily Show" 12/17/13 and denied he headed up an army of "mercenaries" in Iraq).

Who is Amway accountable to? No one except to itself.

Speaker Boehner is fed up with the Tea Party, and so am I. So are many of us. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

When last heard from, Boehner said, "I don't care what they do."