Matthew Shugart's Research Cited in The Washington Monthly
Dual(ing?) Executives
06/24/2011
Joshua Tucker,
The Washington Monthly,Ten Miles Square Blog
When House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) abandoned bipartisan debt-reduction talks yesterday, it seemed rather obvious, almost immediately, that he was throwing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) "under the bus." After all, Cantor quit the moment things got tough, leaving Boehner to cut an unpopular deal and fight for its passage.
There's been talk for months about behind-the-scenes tensions and divisions between Cantor and Boehner, and this only reinforced those rumors.
Not so, GOP officials said yesterday. The official line was that Cantor's decision to quit was part of a long-standing plan, weeks in the making. Republicans, they said, were all on the same page.
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