The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s latest fund-raising letter describes Speaker John Boehner as a “coward” for not challenging his unruly House’s threat to shut down the government if it doesn’t get its way on Obamacare and other White House programs.   Aside from a routine political bite out of the Republicans, the  DCCC’s assessment of Boehner is wrong.

Maybe a coward. But for those of us who see the grim-visaged congressman from southwest Ohio on TV every day with his funereal expression, he impresses me as being no more than a pathetic heap who is haunted in his own House […]