ring that makes otherwise totally non sequitur statements and political actions make some sense. at least make us understand what sense we think they're making. to that end, we have a slight revision to make. it is not a correction, it is a revision to our lead story on yesterday's show. it finally occurred to us today that we had not applied right wing media decoder technology to what's going on with the speaker of the house, john boehner, in trying to understand his latest big political mistake. as you know, john boehner is not having an easy time as speaker. republicans are having a hard time getting even basic legislating done, having a hard time doing basic things that need to be done to run the house, having a hard time picking a message, sticking with it, getting members to act as a unit, instead of like a bunch of six-year-olds playing soccer. three teams, two goals. you decide. even with the hard time they're having, what john boehner did this week is so bad politically,