Matthews Praises Boehner for ‘Showing Some Spine’ Against the Tea Party Clowns

“Good evening. I’m Chris Matthews up in New York. Let me start tonight with this, Third World War in the Republican Party. Twenty-four hours ago it was just good old' John Boehner showing some spine against the wild ones out there on the right. The Tea Partiers from the clown car. Well what a difference a day made. Tonight there's a real war on with Boehner and Paul Ryan manning the fort, defending their pint-size budget plan, and war whooping, and circling the fort of the wild bunch. Not just the Tea Partiers, Paul, Rand, and Marco Rubio, but also Senate leader Mitch McConnell, and fiscal hawks like Senator Tom Coburn. So whom are you going to bet on this? Suddenly spunky speaker and his brainy budgeter, or the wildest of the right wing crazies joined by the toughest of the tough conservatives? Should be quite a war, and it's not just over a vote in Congress, it's over the whole anti-Obama strategy of the American right.”