Is Boehner now a lame duck?

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Boehner discovers the obvious
Our view: After House's failure Thursday to pass its debt limit plan, speaker must realize a bipartisan deal is the only path forward
10:42 a.m. EDT, July 29, 2011

Today House Speaker John Boehner is scrounging around to find the few votes he needs to pass a deficit reduction and debt limit increase plan, an increasingly difficult proposition as his party's conservative wing is growing bold in its revolt against his leadership. But the task is really not so difficult. In fact, there are 193 votes ripe for the taking. They're called "Democrats."

Mr. Boehner has resisted crafting a plan that will attract any of them out of the realization that it would irreparably fracture his caucus and threaten his leadership. But after his failure to round up the 217 Republican votes he would need to pass his plan, the speaker surely must realize that it's already too late to avoid that. President Obama, speaking at the White House this morning, pointed out the obvious lesson that Mr. Boehner should have taken away from Thursday's events: "Any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan."

Given the fact that 53 Democratic Senators and two independents had already sent him a letter saying they would not pass his two-step debt limit increase plan, and that President Obama had already promised to veto it, Mr. Boehner already knew that jamming his bill through the House with no Democratic support was unlikely to work. Despite his boasts that the Senate would cave in and take his bill as the August 2 deadline neared, the chances always were that the final deal would not be on his terms.
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UPDATE:
House approves revised Boehner debt-ceiling plan

After a belabored and bruising struggle to appease conservatives, the House of Representatives has passed Speaker John A. Boehner's bill to raise the debt limit and reduce the deficit.
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"Never in our history has there been an intentional disaster perpetrated by the very people who were elected to be the caretakers of this country. That is exactly what will happen if we refuse to take action to prevent default and pay our nation’s bills now," said Rep. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.), the newly-elected congresswoman from a heavily-Republican district who was chosen by party leadership to deliver the closing argument.
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Boehner's struggle to win over his GOP colleagues came at a cost. The struggle appeared to weaken the speaker just as the weeks-long debt limit standoff is coming to a head before the Aug. 2 deadline. Many lawmakers acknowledged that the most recent revision to the bill only made the proposal less palatable to the Senate and, in the end, undermined the party's attempts to cut federal spending.
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