We'll soon know the limit--assuming there is one--to Boehner's brinksmanship:
The House Republican leadership is seriously considering attaching a one-year delay of Obamacare’s individual mandate to the Senate bill to avert a government shutdown, according to senior GOP aides.
If House Republicans decide to go this route, it would all but provoke a government shutdown, since Senate Democrats might not even schedule a vote on a bill that includes that provision.... Even if the Senate schedules a vote, there might not be time to move the legislation through the slow-moving chamber.
For Boehner, this seems like a rather easy non-sell to his caucus. The delay provision can always be attached to a debt-limit increase (indeed, that's already in the works), so bypassing it now only reserves it for later.
Still, such labyrinthine logic, A-->B, may prove too taxing for House GOPers.
In that event we'd learn the speaker's truest calling: brinksman or statesman.