Boehner: Conservative Republicans Who Opposed Plan B Are ‘Drowning’ The Country

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/21/1370961/boehner-conservative-republicans-who-opposed-plan-b-are-drowning-the-country/

Less than 12-hours after Congress failed to pass the so-called Plan B, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) insisted that he has not abandoned negotiations with President Obama to avert the so-called fiscal cliff and called on Congress and the President to continue working towards a deal

During a press conference alongside House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Boehner sought to shore up confidence in his speakership and his conference, although he admitted that he could not convince conservative members to increase taxes on the richest Americans for the good of the country.

has Beohner gone rogue? or is this a sham to make us think they are trying to do the right thing, but if thats true how can they when he admits most of his' constituents aren't going along for the ride their loyalties lie elsewhere.

 "There was a perception created that that vote last night was going to increase taxes," Boehner explained. "That impression was out there. There were a number of our members who just didn't want to be perceived as raising taxes." He went on to compare the intransigent members to lifeguards who refuse to save drowning swimmers:

One of my colleagues the other night had an analogy of 100 people drowning in a pool, and that he was a lifeguard. Because he could not save any of them, does that mean that he should not have done anything? His point was, if I can go in there and save 99 people that are drowning, that is what I should do as a lifeguard. But the perception was out there and a lot of our members did not want to deal with it.

this scenario is different, the saving of the other 1 is incumbent on decision by a group not inclined to save anyone but themselves and the rich, not that they can't save 100 but that they refuse to