speaker boehner is left in a difficult position. >> certainly, this has not been an easy position for speaker boehner to be in however, if this were the beginning of the road and he had not tried to defund obama care and delay obama care when that didn't work and do four other things and then try to work with the president, he would be probably in much -- much worse position with his own republican caucus than he is now. when the senate passes something that many house republicans don't like, it will be a lot easier for him politically to say i tried, we tried, the math isn't there. the republicans control one half of one of the branchs of government. it will have been a painful process to get to that point. >> the whole thing has been a